Word: proper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cafe proper is a small room in the basement. While it serves the usual fare (at a little less cost) of espresso, capuccino, mokka and assorted pastries, it adds a few specialties of its own like Cranberry Punch. The coffee served at the Cafe Pamplona is absolutely fresh. Miss Yanguas has installed a coffee grinder as well as an espresso machine, and fresh coffee is ground for every three or four cups ordered...
...regard to party affiliation or other endorsement. The voter marks his first choice with a 1, second choice with a 2, etc., expressing as many preferences as he wishes. After each election a quota is established representing the smallest number of votes that will be counted to elect the proper number of people to each body. Then each candidate who achieves this quota is declared elected, until all places are filled...
Rabbi Hertzberg [who urged peaceful theological coexistence between Christians and Jews-Sept. 28] apparently does not understand Christianity, as regrettably many Christians do not. There can never be any proper relaxation of missionary zeal for the church. For the Christian, Christ comes first and martyrdom is preferable to compromise...
...September 1897, a gawky, 16-year-old youngster from Uniontown, Pa. entered, the tradition-hallowed halls of Virginia Military Institute. "Flicker" Marshall, shy, freckle-faced and bewildered, was quickly the biggest dunce among the rats (freshmen). Yet, bitten by V.M.I.'s tradition and by a proper reverence for the exploits of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, V.M.I.'s most illustrious professor (whose statue still rates a salute from passing cadets), George Marshall wanted above all to be a soldier...
Holmes, Hammett's Eyes were driven by no moral obligation; they had a job, and they tried to do it competently. With an irreverent sneer at their proper predecessors, they succeeded and survived because they were tough, not because they were notably intelligent. Things happened to them: they faced pistols, boredom, and bad stomachs from too many foul meals eaten on the run. Hammett's Sam Spade soon found an acceptable running mate in Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe who would tell the girls: "The first time we met, I told you I was a detective...