Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower, on the other hand, "will need have no fear [of finding] Communist skeletons in his political closet." Many Americans wondered, said Nixon, whether "we may lose the struggle . . . against Communism." His reply: not a chance-"provided we get proper leadership...
Last week, reported Rome's Il Messaggero, Italy's 3,000,000 Communists got a stern memorandum from headquarters outlining a "proper code of bad manners" to be observed toward visiting Americans. Items...
Walter Winchell did not present a problem when Emily Post began piloting Americans along the winding bayous of gracious living, and the proper adjustments of falsies was not a matter of social import. But manners change: this week, Socialite Amy Vanderbilt (a 44-year-old offshoot of the Staten Island Vanderbilts, who is married to Photographer Hans Knopf) brought out a new book of etiquette which is unblushingly concerned with areas of human endeavor which ladies & gentlemen did not discuss-or had not yet discovered-back in the day of the bustle and the Prince Albert beard...
While Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was a student at M.I.T. in the '90s, one of his teachers was a man dedicated to a relatively new idea: that the health of the people is a proper concern of governments. The teacher, William T. Sedgwick, has gone down in history as the father of the public-health movement in the U.S. In Manhattan this week, Pupil Winslow won a special ($2,500) award from the Albert & Mary Lasker Foundation because he has fathered modern public-health practice, not only in the U.S., but around the world...
...Burbanked," i.e., combined into a hybrid. At such high-level "spitballing sessions" it may be advisable to "pitch up a few mashie shots to see how close we are to the green." Then, having made sure that the scheme has sufficient "protein," i.e., is a good idea, the proper people can be "bulletined" and the deal "teamworked" through...