Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politicians of the past had made proper use of the millions of dollars allocated for road construction with a view to the future, I am sure that our enormous traffic problem would never have occurred. Unjustly censuring the trucking industry and forcing them to pay for the mistakes of others is a poor attempt to conceal our lack of leadership and planning...
British-born Cinemactress Deborah Kerr, who sluffed off the prim & proper style that Hollywood thrust on her to play a sweater girl in From Here to Eternity, arrived in Manhattan (to rehearse for her first play in the U.S.) with a vision of the future. "I'd like to do as much as possible while my face and figure hold up," she mused. "Then I'd like to buy a place outside Florence where I'll paint. Then one day some people will come by, and one will say, 'Do you see that elderly lady with...
...California's Stanford University the Cossets studied the U.S. technique of "dating," learning that college rules forbid alcohol, but that it is proper for a coed to drink beer from a paper cup off campus. In Las Vegas, Nev. the Cossets would not have been surprised to find doctors trying to keep their gambling-mad patients happy with slot machines...
...London during the blitz, Dr. Jones himself has become a placid countryman. He likes to look out of his windows at the rolling Sussex hills, which he calls "maternal mounds." A close student of the Oedipus-complected Hamlet, he is said to have coached Sir Laurence Olivier on the proper gestures to suggest the prince's improper urges...
...Regency Act. said Rab Butler, should be altered. The plan is to make Queen Elizabeth's husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, regent. The Queen feels it proper that Prince Charles's father, not his 22-year-old aunt, should train the boy for the responsibilities of the throne and shoulder those responsibilities as regent, if need...