Word: decently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth, however, less firmly impressed upon the mind of the average student is that in costume he must be as Britannic as possible. The statement that a decent coat cannot be cut out of London frequently produces an excellent effect; the exhibition of a large number of samples, chiefly of bright paid patterns, makes a deep impression upon the outer world. The idea that a garment has crossed the ocean gives it a prestige not attainable by other means; and, in speaking of one's winter wardrobe, it is much better, to say "I'm going to send a line...
Last week, editors thought they saw a good, noncontroversial, non-scandalous religious news story. The elements of the story: the National Broadcasting Company (which always is "decent to newspaper people"); the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (newspaper people must be decent to it); Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman (a newspaper columnist himself); Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise (not averse to newspaper publicity), and many a Catholic, Jewish, Protestant layman whose name was not announced. For the greater honor & glory of God, these various factors would work in non-sectarian unison. The Federal Council announced that Dr. Cadman...
...charming. George Hassell squealed and grunted in cagey fashion as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee would be funnier if it did not so faithfully preserve its "you're mine and I love you" attitude toward the slimy joke of compulsory castration. The critics were shocked, and the decent public, eager doubtless to see the sumptuous settings, crawled, in surreptitious droves, to see Chee-Chee...
...first two acts he is there as the iceman and she falls for him. If you have an English A section man or a tutor or any other suitable person who has done you dirt, take him here and let him stew for three hours. He will be remarkably decent to you after that...
Paul Poiret, Parisian dressmaker, last week flayed the indecency of short skirts. Said he: "Parisian dressmakers are forced to admit they are in perfect accord with Pope Pius. . . . Women have lost by want of mystery. . . . Modern woman should wear skirts a trifle longer and more decent...