Word: decent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family avenge her, committed suicide. It opens in the best Giraudoux style of artificial high comedy. The ultra-pure wife of Aix's overrighteous new judge, by cutting dead everyone involved in sexual intrigue, even the innocent, deceived mates, is rocking the town with scandal. When one decent husband's eyes are opened, his affectionate if promiscuous wife harshly berates the prude. Then, drugging the virtuous lady, she plots with a procuress to make the lady believe that while unconscious she was violated by the town rake...
...these theaters in "the sticks" have decent dressing rooms and spacious lobbies; most also have bars or restaurants. By contrast, most Broadway houses have creaky stage machinery, dirty, badly ventilated dressing rooms, cramped auditoriums and lobbies, offer no food or drink beyond the usual soapy orange juice. There are some notable exceptions, Aherne concedes, but generally, "Broadway comforts are so poor I am surprised people go to the theater...
Clean and Decent, by Lawrence Wright. The natural history of the bathroom may be an unlikely subject, but the author's wit and scholarship make this book better bathtub reading than most novels...
CLEAN AND DECENT (281 pp.)-Lawrence Wright-Viking...
Eventually, the apparatus was available in the form of a dolphin (rampant), a lion (couchant), or embellished with the "blue magnolia design." ^ In 1900 the Syphonic Closet of the Century was announced. It was clean and decent, but it missed the pungent grandeur of the commode from which Louis XIV announced his forthcoming marriage to Mme. de Maintenon. And it cannot have given its users the satisfaction of the chamber pot, or jerry, available to Britons around 1800, whose interior was limned with a portrait of Napoleon...