Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seduced her. Calling at her dismal slum home to tell her he would not marry her, Jimmy met her handsome younger sister Madge, promptly switched his affections and made Madge his mistress. As for poor Florrie, what else could she do but shine up to Herbert, a dull, decent office clerk, persuade him that she was carrying his child, and accept his offer of marriage...
...March 23 article, "A Matter of Background," is incredible. Princeton and the Ivy League have a reputation for traditionalism. The preservation of decent tradition is a worthy thing, but the blind clutching at outworn and bankrupt tradition is not only unworthy, but in this instance vicious. The Daily Princetonian, in commenting on this effort to include all in the notoriously undemocratic upper-class eating clubs, has concluded that some students "did not have a social background which would fit them into the Princeton system," and inquires "Was it fair for the university to admit them...
...changeover in the Kremlin itself, he said, there has been, as you know, an expression of an intention to seek peace. They will never be met less than halfway, the President continued, because the purpose of this Administration will forever be to seek peace by every honorable and decent means...
...degrading influence when you are willing to print the caption, "Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad." How unworthy of what you are supposed to stand for! It's hard enough for the average person to lead a decent life anyway...
...crisp, lucid book called Five Gentlemen of Japan, the outward confusion is shaken down to meaningful comprehension. What Author Frank Gibney has tried for, and achieved, is a character analysis of the Japanese nation. He has succeeded-perhaps better than anyone else so far-in explaining how decent Japanese could become the brutes of Bataan and Manila, why they are now worthy of trust and important to the free world...