Word: decently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Races" p. 13, you say Lee and Dave Blackman, Negroes, killed en route to Shreveport jail, "had done nothing but be born their brother's brother" and that, "the Parish people wanted more blood." You don't know what you are talking about and you are what decent Southern people call "nigger lovers." The Blackmans were bad niggers, bullies, bootleggers, makers of moonshine and thieves. Last year their father shot out the eyes of a little white boy. We live in harmony with our good niggers-strange ties of affection exist between the white gentry and the darkies...
...distant Irish village. He foreswears his occupation, and, a lover of love and beauty, falls in love with an affectionate but unimaginative woman. Practical, ambitious, Anna persuades her moonraking Johnny to earn occasional hangman's fees, and bring home the dead man's things, now a decent coat, now a stout pair of boots. Tortured by this necessity, Johnny broods over his ropes and ring, croons the ugly details to a fascinated small son, demonstrating with a grotesque rag doll on a miniature scaffold. In a drunken brawl at the inn Johnny champions a slattern, more unfortunate even...
...first place, Chairman Martin Barnaby Madden of the House Appropriations Committee was fighting to hold his seat from a Chicago district mostly populated by Negroes. With his long record, unusual ability and dignified conduct, silver-polled Mr. Madden had the sympathy and support of decent citizens. Yet he has inextricably affiliated with preposterous Mayor Thompson, whose war-cries ranged from "Crack King George on the snout!" to "To hell with the Tribune!" Political tickets being what they are in Chicago, Mr. Madden might well have been defeated together with Crowe. His opponent was William L. Dawson, a Negro backed...
...polish brightest diamonds, the home of landlubbing watermen who pole barges along slow canals, the habitat of buxom and sensible stenographers who pedal to work each morning upon thousands of bicycles. Amsterdam, in short, is the last place where one would expect to hear-during the decent forenoon hours, and from a stately mansion-a sequence of revolver shots...
...story concerns a remarkably decent young Austrian officer who loses considerably more than he can pay at a game which has points of similarity, if it is not really the common variety, of Vingt-et-un. The account of his first night's gaming is the high point of the narrative. Willie is not an inveterate gambler, in fact he is naive to the point of ignorance. Temperamentally he is a graceful loser, but fundamentally he is at a loss to cope with the situation. From the general nature of Schnitzler's work, the tremendous coincidence of Fate...