Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real name was Edward Zane Carroll Judson. His father, Levi Judson, fifth generation of an old Connecticut family, wrote solemn essays on the nature of man, and tried his best to ground his son in the elements of decent behavior. Ned was about twelve years old when he ran away to sea; at 15 he was a midshipman in the Navy. At 21, he was dashing off sea stories and editing Ned Buntline's Magazine (a "buntline" is the rope at the bottom of a square sail). Two years later, a recent widower, he was caught in a Nashville...
...only a grocer, to be sure, but by Bloomingdale standards he was well-to-do and a good catch. Their failure in marriage began on the wedding night, when Carl got raving drunk. Lilian had neither the intelligence nor the maturity to try to understand Carl, a decent enough fellow when he was not drinking. As time went on, he came to think of her as a chip off the block his cold, superior mother had been hacked from; then his benders became heroic. Big Clara, lusty and human, was all the things the two women in his life...
...divorce from Bandleader Art Jarrett. The divorce was quite in order, retorted Eleanor's attorney, but so far as Rose's action was concerned, "I shall not comment on its moral nature except to say that I do not think it will rank high among the decent or gracious acts...
...Nash is a gentleman, stiff but witty; Mrs. Nash is generous-hearted, and undeceived about human nature. They take so warmly to Passmore and their son's widow that Passmore begins to understand the barrier of misunderstanding that separated the parents from their spoiled son. Newby tells his decent, civilized story effortlessly and well; but at the end its pallor and essential bloodlessness bring a shrug...
Very much." To decent, secular folk like the Dunns and their friends, this is as unnerving as having poison ivy or termites about the place. Pressing Peter for details, they learn that the vision was rather like a person, that its message was love, and that they must join him at the same hilly spot for a repeat miracle...