Word: decently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class bitterness is so deep, its prejudice so powerful, and its antagonism to everything labor stands for is so inflamed that a decent Government following the present one would be justified in impeaching the present one for disloyalty...
...prohibition forces in America might well take the words of Ramsay MacDonald upon the subject as a creed. He characterizes it as a great effort to keep people decent and to enable men and women to do their duty to their families and spend money upon necessities...
...great churchman publicly rebukes another for suggesting that the case be reviewed by an executive commission: he characterizes that suggestion as an impertinence. Such an expression can only come from deeply stirred feeling, a feeling that when our courts are under attack from agitators those who have a decent regard for them should stand together in their defence. It is because of the consideration one must feel for this attitude, which is widespread, as well as because of the high regard in which I hold both of these distinguished leaders, that I venture to recall certain facts regarding the history...
...Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher and Zora Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they objected to Negro Artist Winold Reiss's drawings of Negroes because he "made his colored people look so colored." Of the whole radical school of young Negro authors they said, pityingly, disapprovingly: "Lord help these bad New Negroes...
...Obscene! Obscene books, obscene magazines, obscene newspapers and obscene plays [nice word, obscene-a word to get a kind of circulation with] are multiplying with astounding rapidity throughout every corner of the United States! [Exclamation marks are sometimes effective] ... Women's clubs, churches, teachers and all decent folk in general owe it to themselves to face the facts- the sinister facts, as set forth by Frederic F. Van de Water in 'The Obscene Drama' in the April issue now on sale, ten cents...