Word: properly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proper Spirit. In Battle Creek, Mich., Robert F. Ort, who admitted setting twelve fires in the Moose Lodge clubhouse, told police that putting them out helped develop "comradeship" among the members...
...Communist president and newly elected head of the T.U.C., sprawled triumphantly over a half pint of beer. "Yer'd have thoert they woor blooody Nazzies," said Will Lawther, "th' way they've been schemin' and skirmishin'-but we've got th' blighters proper licked...
...also cleared up a minor mystery-why had she written a letter to Consul General Lomakin after her first escape to Countess Alexandra Tolstoy's farm? "I wanted to speak to them as human beings in order to see that proper arrangements [for staying in the U.S.] could be made. When they came, they were not human beings at all, but arrested...
...where was that? That was where the last Foreign Ministers' Conference broke up eight months ago in London, angry and in almost complete disagreement between Russia and the West. To return to that ill-fated council table might be a proper and necessary step, but it would not be an occasion for ringing bells to herald peace or springing the doves for joyous flutterings...
...they show up at the studio when a top singer first tries out a new one. Says Sammy: "They're damned careful to sing it the way we wrote it when we're staring 'em in the face. Lotsa singers don't know the proper phrasing and even lose a rhyme. So we gotta be around to protect our baby." Says Jule: "Nobody's going to improve our songs to death...