Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that they can go merrily on their way, content in their way of life while their wives are unhappy? These executives didn't marry for love and companionship; they wanted only topnotch housekeepers, who are supposed to run the house, manage the servants, raise the children in a proper fashion, dress well, be good hostesses, and present themselves to the world as happy little women...
Anyway, some of us here are trying to persuade our readers in Britain and the Commonwealth to get the election result in proper perspective. And not all of us went overboard in forecasting victory for Adlai Stevenson. Rene MacColl, of the Daily Express, certainly did not; and one week before the election, my column in the Daily Mail and its syndicated newspapers said: "I now have a hunch, if not a deep conviction, that Eisenhower is going to win this election...
...such industry as exists in China today. In Manchuria there are more Russians than in any other part of Red China. Kao, who visited Moscow in 1949, has long been a slavish imitator of Russian methods. Last week he received a group of Soviet artists, loudly applauded (with the proper gradations of respect) both a Stalin Cantata and a tone poem, The Song of Mao Tse-tung. Mao has said: "Comrade Kao Kang is a consistently correct leader." With this buildup, Kao, 50, is already a member of the Chinese Communist Party's 1) Central Committee, 2) Military Council...
...great deal of time impressing people with who they are. Van Johnson, in particular, greets everyone with a hearty handshake and an introduction: "I'm John, John Alden." Neither is it surprising that all the Pilgrims show a superhuman piety and fearlessness, that they are all cultured and very proper, acting more like their descendants than the hardy tinkers and tailors they were. For the producers of this movie were obviously concerned lest they shatter any primary school images. So they have handled the Pilgrims carefully. The only boorish character on Mayflower is the only non-Pilgrim, the captain (Spencer...
There is nothing to carp about in this picture. The stars are superb, the story sensational, and the scenery simple. The color blends instead of blares. The dialogue is droll and dramatic in proper turn. I have nothing but praise...