Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to Farmer Christopher, Massachusetts' MacDonald is running in a suburban Boston district-and he certainly has the proper credentials: he is a onetime Harvard football captain; he was Senator John Kennedy's college roommate; he has a lovely wife, former movie actress Phyllis Brooks, who ladles out pink, nonalcoholic punch with complete grace and aplomb...
Joseph M. Cronin '56, Dudley House Dance Chairman, said that he refused to go as "one of the spares," and even if he were the girl's proper escort he would ask her if there weren't "some place else" she would like...
...object as at him. "There are a lot of things old bishops have to put up with besides old age, loneliness, and lack of domestic comforts, and the worst of these is coadjutors. To be God Almighty tagged on you to see that your justice and morality are the proper kind, is a more than human ordeal...
Returning to the present and to Faculkner's adventures in Hollywood, however, Coughlin weakens the book with an overdose of anecdotes. He seems to become so involved with the writer's eccentricities that, instead of trying to explain them or put them in proper perspective, he piles amusing incidents on the reader so heavily that the chapter largely destroys the clear outline of Faulkner the man that he has sketched in the earlied part of the book...
This is in tribute to a proper hippopotamus called "Happy" who died three years ago today in Boston's Franklin Park Zoo. He was a most excellent hippopotamus, living peacefully and heavily to the ripe age of 32 1/2, dining noisily on bales of hay and shovelfuls of beets. During the long afternoons, when things were slow, he would swim leisurely in his tank, coming out occasionally to dry himself in the sun. "Happy" took life easily, and when he yawned, it was a twenty-two inch event. He led an aristocratic existence if ever there...