Word: proper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After all, what is most desirable in the House is that a proper balance of power be maintained between the two different factions. Nothing is more deadening than constant agreement, and opposition only ensures a thorough consideration of all proposals. Even the most rugged American individual could hardly desire a complete isolation from foreign culture, but he is in the habit of desiring adequate representation for his ideas. The recent developments in the administration of Lowell House seem to indicate that such representation is, in the case at least, assured...
Landing in Manhattan from the Leviathan, last week, Pact Man Frank Billings Kellogg said: "Undoubtedly the Pact is working. It is so considered in Europe, I know. Secretary Stimson's action was entirely timely and proper...
...Draughtsman Ferriss transfers this obvious, romantic vision into a series of pleasing, misty drawings made appealing by the use of breath-taking perspectives and powerful light effects. Practical critics observe that the scheme is ephemeral and utilizes such tricks as leaving out windows which, if represented, would convey the proper scale and give a realistic effect to Architect Ferriss's momentous masses, but would make these masses seem much less momentous and startlingly visionary. The drawings are accompanied by a lyrical text which breaks out into blank verse at times and ends with an epilog-The City Could...
...Informal riding clothes. J. Stanley Reeve is always himself immaculate and proper, a perennial figure in grey derby and white spats at horse shows, polo matches. Two years ago some Philadelphia tailors hailed him as "Philadelphia's best-dressed man." Tailors for dapper Edward T. Stotesbury and onetime Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick protested...
There is nothing startling about the Dramatic Club's first production of the season, except its contrast to the sort of thing that was being presented a year ago at this time. From unruly Mexico, the Club has shifted to the most polite drawing-room atmosphere of proper England. Of course, A. A. Milne is much too successful in juvenile writing to let slip an opportunity like the Barrie-Kipling dream scene in which the appearance of a Nite, a Squier, and a Buteus Maiden would do any child's heart good. The adult portions of the play are composed...