Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MERRYMAN
Berkeley, Calif.
...proper chaperones are picked for fraternity functions (women cannot be in the fraternities unless there are chaperones present), the punch bowl downstairs will be pure. The one upstairs won't. The Middlebury women have forced this. They prefer it to two separate dispensaries downstairs, one for Middlebury women, one for others. Imported dates are under no drinking restrictions...
...pulled a blooper in patriotic etiquette. When the Marine Band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner, the President and the chaplains to his left faced the music; the chaplains to his right faced the American flag. The President & friends were wrong: Public Law 829 stipulates that it is always proper to face the flag, if one is displayed, during the playing of the anthem...
...Jenkins led Stevens on through the heart of the Army case, McCarthy broke in ("Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman . . . Just a minute! Just a minute! Just a minute!"), frantically trying to shut off Stevens' testimony. Chairman Karl Mundt ruled that Jenkins' questions were proper. The big man from Tennessee went...
...staffer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who also came to TIME Inc. in 1936 and was assistant managing editor of LIFE. Said Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce: "The new magazine will be a re-evaluation of sport-not an over-evaluation-to put it in its proper place as one of the great new modes of expression...