Word: proper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President made these changes: 1) Such callers will be sidetracked to the "proper department" without seeing the President; 2) those who get in by mistake will be ushered out a back door to the South Grounds, will be kept away from lobby newsmen; 3) letters addressed to the President and given to the press in advance of their receipt at the White House, will never reach the President, will never get a presidential reply...
...sheltered Riccione on the Adriatic seaside were Donna Rachele Mussolini and 22-month-old Babe Romano, indisputably Il Duce's favorite son, often called by him "the first child of my second series." Waiting also was a spandy new speedboat. So far as observers could see, the birthday celebration proper was in two parts: 1) Donna Rachele sat placidly on the beach; 2) Dictator Benito and Babe Romano went out morning and afternoon in the speedboat, dashed thrillingly through spume-flecked waves...
...woolen sweater, with a stack of books in his dormitory room, instead of pick, pan and shovel. Instead of rip-roaring oldtime dance halls there are night clubs and roadhouses nowadays, built up around Reno to accommodate the transient (divorce-seeking) trade. Discreet enough to be considered proper for the University of Nevada's young people, these places bear such idyllic names as "The Willows" and "Idlewild,'' though at a place called Lawton's Springs there is sometimes heard an echo of "the West that...
...self-consciousness that had resulted from batteries of cameras and prying reporters anxious to gather material on the sayings and actions of assembled geniuses. As each wore a large identification tag bearing the name of his state, they soon found this an easier means of appellation than remembering proper names. "Oregon" compared notes with "Maryland"; "New Jersey" told "Kansas" about Manhattan, for "New York" himself was from Utica, had never seen New York City. Soon they decided to form a club, "The Edison 49ers," to meet every ten years...
...safety of our representatives John Peel and Vernon Allen while in your state. According to telegrams reaching us from Representative Peel today his life was threatened by thugs in the employ of textile corporations in Ware Shoals and the local police authorities in that place instead of affording Peel proper protection in the fulfillment of his duties deported him to another part of the State. We insist that the organizers and members of the United Textile Workers of America be adequately protected in the legitimate pursuit of organization activities and demand that South Carolina see to it that the constitutional...