Word: propped
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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They are both pathetic. I have had both better material and better teachers at Prop school than those connected with these emasculated survey courses...
Lolling in his Cuban farmhouse, dressed only in shorts and a highball, Ernest Hemingway posed as a hairy-chested prop for a fashion picture in Vogue. Referring to him as "a famous presence in Cuba," the caption was mostly concerned with the model's lavender silk get-up and straw shoes...
When completed, the movie will he available for showing to high school and prop school students, alumni, and any others who might be interested in the College. "The March of Time" may distribute the film through its agencies, if it considers it good enough...
...charms of modern Hellas is that everyone plays the national game of kani politiki (making politics). A fixture of the scene in an Athens café or in any village taverna is at least one Greek spread over five chairs (a prop for each arm, one for each foot and one to sit on), waiting for his vari gliko (strong, sweet coffee), and noting on the back of a box of cigarettes this list: Populists 62, Liberals 62, Union of the Center 46, Social Democrats 34, Union of the Left 11, Unionists 6. These are the main political parties, with...
When both the depression and war had vanished, RFC, in its $6.5 million new Washington office building, kept lending away: to Henry Kaiser ($188 million), the now bankrupt Lustron Corp., the foundering Waltham Watch Co. (which later hired an RFCman as president). It also decided to prop up gasoline stations, country stores, restaurants, plumbers and a host of small businessmen. Though it made some curious loans, it claimed an overall profit of $560 million during its existence...