Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner out of the prison gate than he was in trouble again. Pursued by a carload of persistent newsmen, he ordered his chauffeur to step on the gas. sent his black Cadillac hurtling along the 45 miles to Detroit at 80 m.p.h. (Michigan speed limit: "Reasonable and proper"). Twice overtaken by the reporters, Frank croaked peevishly: "Will you fellows please quit chasing me? Do you want to kill me dodging these cars?" Later he hopped a train for Manhattan, where he faces two more raps: one for dodging the truth about his criminal record when he applied for U.S. naturalization...
Gently Does It (by Janet Green) is distinctly English playvvriting, less distinctly any one kind of English play. Sufficient murder is contemplated and committed to label it a thriller, and its chief character is ruthless and psychotic enough to be a proper basis for thrills. But Edward Bare is so set on getting on in life through wealthy women that the play-all the more for being talky-seems less concerned with crime than mere careerism...
Hordes of Cabots, Lowells and O'Reilly's have accepted the art of Scollay Square in a proper spirit of clean fun. And Boston has been justly proud, in more tolerant times, to be known as the home of this nation's first legitimate theatre. In fact, the cavalier action of the police is a slap in the face of hospitality that reaches back to the stoning of British troops...
...could do to hold it. Perhaps the most telling tactic of the Russians was their teamwork. In tournament chess matches, it is illegal to prompt a player as he sits at the board, but when a game has been adjourned (e.g., overnight), it is perfectly proper to take counsel from "seconds" (other players, who help map further strategy). The Russians happily seconded one another at every opportunity; Reshevsky's second was his non-chess-playing wife. Sipping countless cups of tea, Reshevsky managed to wind up in a triple tie for second place with two Russians...
...longer recognized as a disease, but only as a symptom of some other disease. As a result, a whole class of so-called "primary anemias" is being dropped from medical thinking, e.g., pernicious anemia is now known to be a metabolic upset in which the system fails to make proper use of vitamin B12. Once the cause of this or practically any other anemia is tracked down, the underlying complaint can be treated and the symptom usually disappears...