Word: proper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he is badly maligned. He does not do the things that politicians are supposed to do: he cannot tell a joke, seldom even laughs at a good one and cannot go through the complicated ritual-throwing back the head, slapping the thigh-which immemorial tradition holds is the proper U. S. politician's response to a bad one. His handshake is no heartier than the usual political handshake deserves to be. To reporters who pry into his political plans he talks on & on-about the need to develop new inventions, the need to build 550,000 new houses...
...dead Japanese soldier has on him a charm, worn in life to ward off death. Often a man draws about himself a magic circle (the round of his life is full; no escape) and puts a bullet in his head. Instead of cremating bodies to be returned home for proper Shinto burial, Army officers cut off heads, cremate them for home burial, and bury the bodies in China, or drop them in rivers or wells. All these things prey on the Japanese will to fight...
...Gedye said he had learned "from a highly qualified observer" that Rumania did not even intend to defend the province-had no fortifications and not a single soldier there, was evacuating Rumanian businesses from the area, was mobilizing behind the River Prut, which divides Bessarabia from Rumania proper...
...Charles finally sat down and wrote a book* showing how nice and refined the Shaws were, how they had a proper schooling, visited in high-class homes, Did Things in the world, had knights in the family. One of them was even immortalized (titteringly) in Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe...
Saturday afternoon the high point of the whole conference was reached as a general outlook on the whole subject of propaganda in the modern world was taken. I. A. Richards, University lecturer, and Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of psychology, gave what they considered a proper definition of propaganda and its place in education...