Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most powerful labor leader in the West, Seattle's bald, pink-faced Dave Beck toiled assiduously last week to satisfy the demands of protocol at the A.F.L. convention. He arrived in Cincinnati for the big doings as punctiliously as a good Moslem entering Mecca. He donned a proper hand-painted necktie, submitted cheerfully to interviews, and loitered diplomatically in the lobby of the Netherland Plaza Hotel, glad-handing rheumy and belligerent old union patriarchs...
...when the convention proper began, Teamster Czar Beck acted less like a union big shot than a man taking a rest cure at some stodgy, back-country hot springs. He made no speeches at all; when he sat down to listen to convention oratory, he did so with the resigned air of a man lowering himself into a mud bath for the good of his soul and his sweat glands...
...first play, "The Road to Rome," was neither a commercial nor an artistic success because the proper ingredients for either were not there. It was a mildly amusing but banal play, containing a certain topical message which could not, however, justify its inclusion in any repertory. The Copley players' second play, which closes tonight, is Shaw's "Heartbreak House," a much wiser and likelier choice, which they do in fine style...
...find the proper mean that Provost Buck appointed on November 9 a ten-man faculty committee to investigate the entire field of College advisory aid to students. This committee will consider the extent to which the Faculty should actively direct students, and the best ways to tie together academic, social-psychiatric, job placement, and all other forms of advising...
...results of this confusion have been bad for all concerned. Students, caught up in inter-office red tape, have failed to follow proper procedures and have wound up without Sanders on some nights when they needed it; the Dean's office has been accused of everything from favoritism to total incompetence by disgruntled undergraduates...