Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrewd sense of utility, has established Arlene as the first lady of TV-and probably the highest paid. Toughest hurdle was Papa Kazanjian, who bundled Episcopalian Arlene off to a Roman Catholic convent when she was seven, later put her in Manhattan's flossy Finch School for proper young ladies. In a final, futile effort to steer her clear of the theater, he bought her a gift shop on Madison Avenue (Studio d'Arlene), which closed in the Depression. Soon a toughened veteran of the soap-opera circuit (Big Sister, Aunt Jenny), Arlene went on to mysteries...
...would cry out, "that you are to give an account of your conduct at the last day." Samuel Morse felt quite at home in this stringent atmosphere. Along with painting, he dabbled in electricity, which alarmed his father. "Your natural disposition,'' warned the elder Morse, "renders it proper for me earnestly to recommend to you to attend to one thing at a time...
...merchants soon learned to stock their own stores from Filene's-if they could beat customers to the counters. As many as 150,000 breathless shoppers stormed the basement on the first day of a new sale-Boston fishermen and Harvard facultymen, U.S. Senators and Back Bay housewives. "Proper Bostonians," says a Filene vice president, "have always had an eye for a nickel...
Opportunity with Responsibility. In framing a new philosophy of education, the U.S. should not rely primarily on liberal arts professors, few of whom "have ever faced the problem of providing a proper education for a fourth-grader with an IQ of 80." Nor should the nation lean on the educationists, for most of them are not the sort of educational philosophers that are needed. Just where such philosophers would come from no one can say, but, says Woodring, the people themselves "have developed their own unique view of the role of the schools." Though never stated in any complete...
what should come first. The proper...