Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they let off such chesty bugle notes of self-satisfaction that only the coldest, boldest critic dares to play deaf. But there are other good writers who bloom in silence, leaving it to the critics to sniff them out, though it may take years to place them in their proper niches...
...time he was 25, Ford was helping struggling Polish Immigrant Joseph Conrad to proper use of the English language. He wrote with him a novel named Romance-and thereafter paid the penalty of being introduced to strangers as "the man who collaborated with Conrad." As editor of the English Review, Ford was the first to print poems and stories by the young D. H. Lawrence-and in return for the favor was roundly abused by that ungrateful genius. Later, Expatriates Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passes made their early marks in Ford's transatlantic review...
...public as Coca-Cola, cigarettes and convertible coupes. To catch his listeners' jaded ears, he mixed the flashiest symphonic devices of conservatory and concert hall with new electronic tricks picked up from radio engineers. With the help of a battery of microphones turned up or down for the proper blend ("We couldn't do it without the microphone"), Kostelanetz' music took on "sounds and sonorities that didn't exist before...
...Democratic Party slate had sizzled so merrily on the political stove that last week it disintegrated. The bosses, who think in terms of racial and religious blocs, had figured out a proper recipe to dish up to New York voters: a Jewish candidate for the U.S. Senate, an Irish Catholic from Brooklyn for governor, and an Italian Episcopalian for mayor...
Between bouts with Russia's Jacob Malik, Chief U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Warren Austin hurried off to Burlington, Vt, put on the proper uniform (including a frayed shirt and striped galluses) for an inspection tour of his ripening apple orchard...