Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jury have any prejudice against the girl? Would they have any sympathy? These two questions, put by defense counsel and prosecutor, were critical. The moral bewilderment of the talesmen was expressed by Mrs. Alice Leopold, a representative in Connecticut's general assembly. Did Mrs. Leopold believe it was proper to take a human life to put a person out of suffering? "I do not know," she said. Judge John A. Cornell interposed: Could she follow the judge's instructions on the law even though they were in violent disagreement with her personal convictions? Said Mrs. Leopold: "I would...
...puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons as we have come to love them...
...frequently said that athletic sports in a college are the best safeguard it can possess against disorder among the students. In the good time coming, when college athletics shall have been reduced to a perfunctory basis and shall have become as proper as the most ardent disciplinarians could wish, it may be found necessary to devise a substitute for them as a preventive of disorder. In the opening words of a recent editorial the Oberlin "Review" furnishes us a hint which immediately suggests such a substitute. "A few years since," says the "Review," "the president of a neighboring college...
...enough odd facts about words ("It becomes a dreadful habit") to fill a Dictionary of Slang, a Dictionary of Cliches and a Dictionary of the Underworld. Last week the latest product of his addiction was on U.S. bookshelves. Name into Word (Macmillan; $4.50) was a colorful catalogue of "proper names that have become common property...
...while, the prisoners, too, were at moral odds amongst themselves. They argued endlessly about the proper way to meet their fate. The doctor was satisfied "to make our peace with these things and die quietly, like men." Anatol, a shaven-headed ex-Communist, snorted at dying "gracefully ... It stinks of priests and last minute confessions...