Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis, Emily Post, an alert 81, received the press for lunch to celebrate the ninth edition and 82nd printing of her long-distance bestseller, Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage. As reporters dawdled over cocktails, the arbiter of proper behavior cried: "I'm hungry. Where's the food?" She stoutly maintained, "Good manners have not declined," nonchalantly pontificated, "The essence of good manners consists in putting people at ease." Like its author, Etiquette has mellowed since it first went to press in 1922. A Post host of today, unlike those in earlier...
...sense, this discontinuity is proper. As Adam Yarmolinsky '43, first chairman of the Yardling and now a Washington attorney, explained, "The Yardling was the kind of thing you could do in the relaxed atmosphere of the late thirties...
...government department-a department no more or less important than any other. In its efforts to please the government, it has become so watered down as an institution that to the average Swede it has lost most of its spiritual meaning. The Swedes regard the church as a proper place to marry in or be buried from; only a handful go to Sunday worship. The bishop with whom I spoke-one of those who signed the notorious letter-personally opposes abortions and birth control "except in cases of dire medical necessity." But he admitted to me that he had never...
...sorts of fields from medicine to mathematics, astrology to astronomy, Roman civil to medieval canon law. Meanwhile, there was the problem of equipment. In 1951 the U.S. Air Force was buying up most of the film available in Europe, and the only company that could produce the proper developer ("We were developing small rolls by hand, but you can't make any speed that way") was already way behind in filling its orders. Father Donnelly took his problems to Remington Rand and the Graphic Microfilm Corp. of New York, gradually got an adequate supply of film, and the promise...
...there was Alf. Then unemployed, he had been picking winners ever since he was nine (when he selected Coronach, 11 to 2, in the 1926 Derby). He was no Communist, he told the Worker people; he didn't even vote. Still, the end seemed to justify the means. Proper Fun. Alf never finds time to go to the track. ("I'm too busy working out the form and collecting information around town.") But he admits he has done pretty well. Says he: "Nothing else interests me. Stick with me, bet within your means, and you'll have...