Word: decently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truly as any soldier who ever died in battle. When any man for campaign purposes or to gain a partisan advantage undertakes to disturb the repose of that leader, I brand him as a political ghoul and declare him to 'be unfit for the society of decent people...
...whole body with its disgusting discharge. Never have conditions during Bicker Week been as revolting and degrading as those of the last four days. Slander, gossip, and mud-slinging have been the rule instead of the exception. Yesterday witnessed a method of club election which would have put any decent slave-dealer during the worst days of human barter to the blush. Men were passed or rejected in a manner that would make the gorge of any decent man rise. But even this is only a small manifestation of the rottenness of a system which forces the smaller clubs...
...York's too big and too intelligent to be bossed by Murphy. The thing isn't decent...
Housing. "The housing problem can only be solved when decent human homes are provided for most of the working classes of the country at rents which can be borne by the average income of those persons. . . . Provision for this has been made since the war by subsidies. We are going to continue that, and at present we shall continue it in relation to this problem of how we can build houses on the average for ?500 and let them on the average for 9 shillings [$2], including rents and rates...
There is only one decent hotel and all the Albanian Deputies (with their wives and families) tried to get into it. Many of them were sleeping six in a room...