Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-eight-year-old Odette has made her tiny, seventh-floor hotel room in Montmartre a haven for the sad, overpainted tarts who climb the spiral stairs for a chat, a prayer or a good cry. Sometimes, too, they ask for help in finding a decent job, and help is always forthcoming. In a dilapidated garret in the suburb of Aubervilliers live Andree, Juliette and Colette-each 24, each working in a factory. Colette- and Juliette work in the nearby Tungsram plant, Andree in the Citroen factory 'in Asnieres. Despite her training years in factory work, Andree...
...peace no longer. "At long last," the 72-year-old Lord told his peers, "I have been brought to my feet by the wish to do something about the rabbit." Rabbits, his lordship insisted, must be exterminated. However, he said, "the only way a rabbit can meet a decent death is to come up against a first-class shot, and we all know that first-class shots are very rare . . . Up to now, I think, our treatment of the rabbit has been very much on our conscience...
...throws off what comes to him in a sort of dream, expecting the devoted reader to run about after him, sniffing at all the droppings of his mind. I am not a psychological dog, and require my dog biscuit to be clearly set down for me in a decent plate with proper ceremony...
...such specific suspicions, there is a lack of a real national feeling in Germany today. As the mayor of a small German city said after a visit to America, "Americans think of Germans as a nationalistic people, but I'd give anything to see just half of the decent, patriotic feeling in Germany that I saw in America...
...democratic instinct of the country in this twentieth century," it asked, "really in favor of hedging royalty in with ecclesiastical proscriptions of arguable historical and theological validity? Or does it not rather prefer to give royalty the same rights and freedoms in their personal affairs as ordinary, decent citizens? If we can have a Prime Minister.*** Cabinet ministers and judges who are 'innocent parties.' we can, without feeling unduly disturbed in our moral fibre, give the same latitude to the Queen's sister...