Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly Shavian Don Juan denounces Hell for just that reason: it is no proper place for man, for the one animal with brains. And what, sneers Satan, has man done with his precious brains...
...Leader of the House of Commons, a taxing triple assignment. A great -great-grandson of the last British Governor of Maryland, Eden has a proper Tory background -county aristocracy, Eton. Oxford (high honors in Oriental languages), a good army regiment, Whitehall and May fair. Respected for his integrity and his success as Britain's Foreign Secretary during the war, liked because he never gets personal or partisan, he has raised high hopes but has not yet fulfilled them. His critics consider him uninspiringly conventional...
...protested: "It's a scandal. I'll call the police," they hurriedly shoehorned the size3 golden slippers on the feet of a 28-year-old stenographer named Huguette Granet. Huguette's prize: a pair of shoes with four-in.-high heels, in a larger size, her proper fit. For Madame Albane de Siva, the clock had struck midnight...
...victory, kept repeating over & over, as if unable to believe it himself: "I knocked him out! I knocked him out!" Later, when he fully realized that he had flattened the man who had not been knocked out since Max Schmeling did it 15 years ago, Rocky said the proper thing: "I'm glad I won, but I'm sorry I had to do it to Louis." Joe, accepting condolences in a gloomy dressing room while soaking his bruised left fist in a bucket of ice, refused to state flatly that he was through. But the sportwriters were already...
Dean Bender's letter describes the Administrative Board's deliberations as striking "a proper balance between a realistic judgment of the probable results of the Council's proposal, if it were accepted, and our confidence in the decency and responsibility of most Harvard students and cur traditional policy of granting them as much freedom as possible to order their own lives." It seems that the confidence and traditional policy were outweighed by the consequences of a minor adjustment to a changed social situation. That changed situation has been recognized by the administrations of women's colleges, by other...