Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to be tough," he says, in reference to his new post, "To do a decent job, we really ought to be out on the greens all fall, then practice on the indoor range during the winter...
...usually had some laudable purpose in his novels -calling attention to practices that needed correction while Mark Twain wrote to make us laugh; but the rot . . . you dish out to describe Nina and all the other participites criminis in Gary's novel is unbelievable in the annals of decent literature, especially to a Southerner; we handle such affairs with a shotgun...
...issue of TIME with a distinct feeling of nausea. Is your taste so low that you believe books like these should be brought to the attention of your readers, or is the trend of literature so degraded that your reviewers can find nothing that would be fit for decent-minded people to read...
...would like to express my own opinion, and that of all decent-minded people, on how disgusted we are at the manner in which President Truman is conducting his campaign for Stevenson. That a President of these great United States should so belittle himself, and speak so unfairly of a very wonderful and respected man" as General Eisenhower, is unthinkable...
Despising them as misfits on life's remainder counter, Hardcaster nonetheless loads them up with atrocity yarns and heroic bilge till they glow with vicarious martyrdom. In but not of the circle of worshippers is a rather decent couple, Victor and Margot Stamp, who keep turning up like good pennies. Victor is a down & cut Australian painter who has sunk to faking Van Goghs in an Old Masters "factory." Margot, his common-law wife, is a girl with a one-tract mind-not the Communist Manifesto but Victor's welfare. But Victor's Marxist pals have little...