Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they wanted to eliminate the 1 to 4 p.m. hours, couldn't bring themselves to grant midnight permissions in return, not even for just the Dartmouth and Yale Saturdays. They unanimously voted down the House Committee Chairmens' proposal, and agreed merely to study the whole question of "simple, inexpensive, decent entertainment"-- particularly decent...
...Brooklyn Bridge. The two are much farther apart in mood and merit than they are in locale. The Manhattan play, A Memory of Two Mondays, is a pat, shapeless picture of life in a warehouse during the Depression; the title play is a forceful drama about a decent man who is undone by blind passion and self-ignorance...
When mamma marries a dull and decent man, then leaves him again for the theater, Dickie is the least surprised person in England. When one of Max's mistresses dies on his hands, and he, at 60, goes off with another, that too seems reasonable enough. With World War II just around the corner, Dickie Savage has in fact grown up and become a bit blasé. Heritage does not say that creative people are exempt from the rules of ordinary decency. But Author West tries to understand them and suggests that even illegitimacy and neglect...
...action as a scout next week. Them clowns down there are anemic bums. They've got no meat on their bones. Some way you've got to figure out a way to shanghai some reinforcements. Forget the expense. If we don't manage that, we won't get any decent opponents; that means no spectators either, and our racket is finished. I understand there are a few more bruisers in Wisconsion (sic). You bring them here. The cost plays no part...
Pleadings. What could be said for Sergeant Gallagher, brought up in a decent home in Brooklyn, an Army recruit at 17, and a holder of the Purple Heart? Some of the witnesses thought Gallagher believed in the Communist doctrines; others thought that Gallagher was one who enjoyed lording it over his fellows, seeming important and influential, and that he was soft and pliable, receptive to the meager comforts the Communists could accord him. "I know I'm a sorry son of a bitch," Gallagher told one of the reactionaries one day, "but after all, I know...