Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant new paint on farmers' houses that looked like huge, multi-flavored icecream cones. Here and there shone the glint of newly gilded brass gods, while ringed all around were the ghostly peaks of the high Himalayas. In the midst of it all, Coronation Guest Lowell Thomas, in proper tails, darted about directing a crew of Cinerama cameramen...
...students toward this invitation should not be stubbornness or self-righteousness; it ought to be horror. Unfortunately, the Princeton administration, having admonished the Whig-Cliosophic Society, did not act with the courage of its convictions or with a recognition of its responsibilities to the whole University. Students without proper appreciation of their institution are in need of guidance, not flattery, from those in authority...
...matter were still being debated (they still can be), the one-legged hero clumped about the White House trying to get Lincoln to let him back into the fight. He was not to be satisfied until 40 years later when Versifier Horatio King put his military record in the proper light...
Sallie Bingham writes another story well. It seems mostly to concern the proper behavior for a sensitive personality. A sensitive personality should collect faces, consider herself introspectively, be socially useful, and go to bed with a dentist. She will then be prepared to add a new link to her chain of experience...
...race lottery, based on a five-or six-horse combination. But since they are sheltered girls who find form charts hard to puzzle out they relied mainly on Mercedes' brother Nelson for expert handicapping in last week's races at Caracas' Hipódromo track. With proper humility they accepted his picks for the first four races; then girlish independence took over and they followed feminine intuition in picking the fifth and sixth...