Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel that every decent-minded person should take up the cudgel against such infamy. Poking fun at Liberace is one thing, but when it goes to the extreme of criticizing the hallowed tradition of mother's love, it's beyond the pale. It would seem that anyone with the proper regard for the Good Neighbor policy would hesitate to fling insults at the judgment and good taste of millions of people of an allied country, who are devoted and ardent admirers of Liberace...
Fischer's target is the National Organization for Decent Literature, headed by Msgr. Thomas Fitzgerald, director of the Chicago Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women. NODL's method, according to Fischer, is to put pressure on newsdealers, booksellers and drugstores to remove from their counters all books on a blacklist, which includes work of such literary mandarins as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Dos Passes, George Orwell, Emile Zola, Arthur Koestler and Joyce Gary. "In some places-notably Detroit, Peoria and the suburbs of Boston," Fischer writes, "the organization has enlisted the local police to threaten booksellers...
...deal with the problem. Threats or boycotts should never be used, he said, but only "persuasion." NODL was no pressure group he insisted but merely a "clearinghouse for information, suggestions and current news for the men and women who generously devote their time and energy to the fight for decent literature...
...Herald Tribune, retired to his native Texas ten years ago, he had a place as Manhattan's most celebrated city editor since the New York Evening World's hard-boiled Charles E. Chapin* and one of the few city editors in newspaper history who could write a decent paragraph. Last week, a successful rancher and freelancer at 57, Walker turned up in Dallas, 140 miles from his ranch, at the Southwest Journalism Forum. In a rattle of pronouncements on the state of U.S. journalism, he proved as tart as ever. ¶On "objectivity" in newswriting: "It produces something...
...down to earth and make use of decent part of the education you could get in this fair city. Ruth Davis...