Word: decently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dailies their manners. And I am wondering if drama critics are to become corrupted by the plays they are paid to see. This is a word that might be spoken on the stage in so frank and veristic a production as The Front Page, but uttered at a decent dinner table it would impel a Victorian butler to practice on the loose-lipped guest what is technically known as the bum's rush...
Bethlehem was crowded. Joseph could find no room at the inn, or any decent lodging. So humbly in a stable, warmed by the breath of kine, the Babe was born, Mary wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him wailing in a manger, between an ox and an ass; and the animals fell to their knees before the Babe.−(St. Luke II, 1:7; and tradition...
...hoping that here at least people would mind their business and allow me to mind mine. But I have found more snoops and gossips per square inch than in any New England town of 1,000 inhabitants. This does not apply to American newspaper correspondents who have been most decent carrying out their duties in a most gentlemanly manner. . . ." It was the people in hotels who annoyed Playwright O'Neill the most. He also hinted in his letter that his next destination was Honolulu or the South Sea Islands or the South Pole...
Grace: For the first time in my life I have seen you in a decent suit of clothes...
...second-hand canary cage and the first white curtains that the Rosslers ever had. In Vienna young Ernestine, nearly grown up, tried first for opera but the director said "Mein Gott, what a face!" suggested a sewing machine. Only the roughneck father was glad. His Tini should have a decent career. But she fooled him, went to Dresden, brought back a contract signed by the King...