Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misconstrue-" he began, but that was as far as Lawyer Isserman got. Said Medina in a level voice: "That is an impertinent statement ... If you keep this up ... there will be a day of reckoning. Perhaps this is an effort to wear me out.* That is not the proper conduct of an attorney. It may wind up by breaking me down, though I hope it doesn't. I tell you now-stop it! . . .If you persist you must take the consequences...
...indignantly ruled that there would be no more weddings on Saturday; he wanted all his flock fit for Mass on Sunday. Once he called in a young chaplain and said: "Last night I observed you walking along the river bank with a widow. First, I do not think it proper that a young chaplain walk alone on a lonely road at night; second, I do not think it correct for him to walk with a young widow; and third, if you did these things, you should ask for your transfer. Please...
...silence critics and strengthen its own position, the Affairs Committee should set to work on the "organizational difficulties" so that next year the Smoker will be in its proper place near the beginning of the freshman year, instead of more than half way through...
...Washington professor had already resigned because "of the conspicuous violation of the proper processes for deciding issues of freedom and tenure . . ." Forty-six Princeton graduate students sent a telegram to President Raymond B. Allen denouncing the whole affair. A Students' Organization for Academic Rights had sprung up overnight on the Washington campus. Last week, hundreds of students, accompanied by a handful of faculty members, crowded into the University Unitarian Church for a protest meeting...
...Though he became a canon of his cathedral and assistant to the Bishop of Washington, he never learned to be formal. If he heard that some teacher's wife had suddenly been taken ill, he would still rush headlong out of a conference to see that she got proper care; once, when he attended a Halloween party in his old Marine uniform, he danced so hard that the pants split down the middle. The Christianity he taught was never stern. "He could have been any kind of clergyman," said one alumnus. "He was a priest for the Catholics...