Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes off in normal horizontal flying position. Its two jet engines blow their gas through thrust-diverters rather like Venetian blinds. The gas, deflected downward, pushes the airplane up. During the hovering period, jets of compressed air act as controls to keep it in the proper position. After the airplane is well off the ground, the thrust-diverter can be adjusted so that the engines push the airplane forward. When it picks up enough speed, it flies supported by its wings...
...typical French spa is Mont-Dore, in central France. There, every morning, patients with respiratory trouble bustle out of 275 summer villas and 80 hotels and pensions to queue up at the doors of the fountain pavilion. Each curist carries his own graduated glass, which attendants fill to the proper mark with tepid, slightly bubbly, radioactive water. After a gargle or a swig, the patient sits in a tub of water for 25 minutes while compressed air is forced up, gets a massage, wades into a thick fog of water particles, finally inhales some vapors to complete the morning treatment...
More Than Money. Author Bentley writes in a spare, harsh style. But at her best she is as clear-spoken as Trollope, as sharp-eyed as Balzac, when it comes to the main theme of most lives: love and money-both, of course, in their proper place. She has the disarming habit of reviewing her own stories by telling the reader what he ought to think about them. Of A Case of Conscience she says: "The inhabitants of Annotsfield . . . are often supposed by those outside the town to be complete materialists, narrow-minded, uncultured, coarse, interested only in cloth...
Like most of the distinguished Glynne family Catherine was devoted to "Glynnese," a private language whose proper use was once demonstrated in a speech supposedly to be delivered by Gladstone in Parliament: "Sir, the Noble Lord opposite is such a phantod* and the Honourable Gentleman next to him such a daundering† and wizzy** old totterton...
...make the mistake of getting enraged too soon; consequently as the play progresses they try to bellow and shriek ever more loudly until the limit of intelligibility has been left far behind. But Hyman is careful to adjust to the big time scale of this process, so that the proper prolonged Beethovenian crescendo results. For, contrary to the popular conception, Othello is not by nature disposed toward jealousy: he is "one not easily jealous, but being wrought perplex'd in the extreme." He says of his wife, for example, "I'll tear her all to pieces." Most actors would here...