Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands became so proficient that one of them alone sometimes caught as many as twelve mice in a single evening. A few days before their probation period expired, their pleased employer asked his superior to give them a sixpence raise. The raise was granted-again reluctantly-and, with proper working conditions thus assured, cats became standard personnel in most British post offices. Four years later, Jackson's cats put in for another raise-one shilling per cat-and got it, bringing their salary to one shilling sixpence per cat per week, provided "the cat be employed in London...
...sake of sustenance. Then his wealthy family hired an illiterate peasant girl named Marie Chevalier as their cook. A native genius, Marie could whip up sauces creamy as clouds and subtle as sunsets; she could pluck a plum tart from the oven at the split second of proper crispness or mash a marron to the delicacy of morning dew. "She civilized me," sighs Curnonsky, repeating an old quip: "She turned my needs into pleasures...
Biggest snag was the lack of proper electrical equipment in the Center. Workers, however, have made the necessary minor electrical changes during the past week...
...provided a new slogan, "Winning Through," and a new symbol, a white lion rampant. But a party brochure picked the hen as its symbolic heroine and proclaimed, with a snort at Labor's noisy ranks: "The cock crows, but the hen delivers the goods." Which is the proper symbol for the Tories, asked the Manchester Guardian, lion rampant or hen couchant...
...relevance since women were admitted to the Houses between the hours of one and eight p.m. Once the Deans' "duty" to preserve morals admits of this, it can hardly be used to prohibit a time extension. The Deans' reasoning, based as it is on the assumed obligation to ensure "proper standards of conduct" applies only to the question of admitting girls at all, a question that was settled long ago, and the present application of such an absolute standard to a question of degree is a simple case of illogic...