Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sister" (presumably because such marriages do not violate the law of God). Nor, in this same anomalous situation, can the Archbishop of Canterbury approve the marriage (presumably because such marriages violate the law of God), even though he man "readmit her to Communion after a decent interval" (presumably because such marriages do not violate the law of God) . . . It is certainly to be noted that the English church of 1533 tended to uphold the laws of God a little more briskly than does the modern English Church...
...attractivness since her appearance in School for Scandal. To my mind she was the spark which the whole show needed, and every sketch she appeared in was better for it. Had anyone else done "Mogambo Rag" it might have seemed disgusting; from Miss Scott it was droll and decent...
Competing with Dagmar. Finer loves everything about TV except the time required to prepare a 30-minute talk: "I can understand how these fellows like Milton Berle feel. The tension is awful. If you've got any conscience at all about doing a decent job, you're undergoing an ordeal." Finer warns teachers about to enter TV not to think of the relatively few minutes they will be in front of the camera, but of the hours and days necessary to get ready: "And there's something else they must learn. Instead of working to your main...
...dancers themselves tried very hard and a decent part of the time managed the very much task of uniting motion with the prose which came sometimes from narrator-director Harold Scott and sometimes from a chorus. Inexperience came naturally in several times to divorce the action from the story, but it was rare enough not to matter...
There is little money in modern music. The Ajemians think they are doing fine if a year's concert fees pay for their transportation, living expenses and special clothes. Says Anahid: "Luckily, we have husbands who make a decent living." But marriage has also complicated their rehearsal problems. Maro is married to an American Oil Co. chemist and lives in California, Anahid to an executive of Columbia Records and lives in Manhattan. The sisters have found a way out of this dilemma. Once they have decided, often via the mails, what works they will play in a coming concert...