Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every decent-minded person should take up the cudgel against such infamy. Poking fun at Liberace is one thing, but when it goes to the extreme of criticizing the hallowed tradition of mother's love, it's beyond the pale. It would seem that anyone with the proper regard for the Good Neighbor policy would hesitate to fling insults at the judgment and good taste of millions of people of an allied country, who are devoted and ardent admirers of Liberace...
...candidate's office; there was also a work area, with typewriters and a duplicating machine, for his staff. At times the staff numbered 13, including two secretaries, two press aides, a tour manager and a doctor. A corps of advance men ranged ahead to see that proper arrangements, e.g., transportation, press facilities, had been made at the next stop. Mindful of the Democrats' "big business" charge, they had one standard instruction: no Cadillacs, please...
...dash back to their cars when he introduced his wife Pat, because that meant the train would pull out in exactly 60 seconds. Pat was introduced without fail at every meeting, usually as ''the best campaigner in the Nixon family." While that was a pardonable overstatement, efficient, proper Pat Nixon is indeed a good campaigner. She did all of the packing for trips, and astonished local women's-page editors by traveling with one suitcase.* Despite the campaign's pace she always managed to appear on the platform looking chic, fresh, interested and pleased, even when...
Pusey also emphasized again that any growth must be conditional upon proper facilities. At his press conference he had released figures showing that College dormitories before World War II held only a few more than 2,700 students in any one year, but that since the war there have never been fewer than...
This notion, current for at least a hundred years, perhaps longer, that Harvard is a tremendously rich university is not so much an inaccurate commentary on Harvard as it is an unmistakable indication of how seriously and consistently the American public has underestimated the proper cost of higher education. President Eliot made this point with characteristic vigor. As early as 1890 he stated bluntly, "The American public must enlarge its ideas of the cost of supporting a university...