Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inject as many contemporary references as possible while evading the law of libel and slander. Without in any way acting as an apologist for the South, I am prepared to believe that the governor of Mississippi is not a boozed up old lecher who only did one decent thing in his disgusting life, which...
...Rhenish guilders, he built a little walled city within the city: six streets containing, in all, 53 double-story houses in neat rows. It was the world's first privately subsidized housing project. Its tenants were limited to poor Roman Catholics who "must lead a decent, Christian life" and who agreed to say a prayer once a day for the Fuggers...
Hammer's exports have also raised British blood pressure. "I feel inclined to apologize to all decent Americans for sending them work in such sickening bad taste," wrote the London Observer's Critic C. A. Lejeune after seeing Hammer's Curse of Frankenstein. This hardly worried Colonel ("The King of Nausea") Carreras. Frankenstein's production cost: $270,000. Its worldwide gross: $7,500,000. Net profit for Hammer...
...bitterness of its own," according to president Eliot Bernat '60 it provides "a Republican alternative to the factionalism which dominates all the state-chartered political groups" at the College. Because of its limited membership, the HEC is not "frightfully active," and finds itself "unable to draw a decent audience" for its speakers...
Japanese businessmen are slow to hire educated girls for decent positions. A girl college graduate says bitterly: "Yes, I can get a job in business, all right: serving tea to the office help." The Japanese male is proving skittish about marrying the emancipated female. He wants an old-fashioned girl just like the girl who married dear old Dad: thrifty, a good cook, plain rather than pretty, cheerful, obedient, and with "just enough spunk to make life interesting...