Word: decently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decent people among the union miners have gone away. They have found other jobs or dropped the union and they'll never come back. These sort of people, who had pride in themselves, wouldn't live in these wooden shacks the union has put up. Those that are there now are the dregs and they'll stay there as long as there are shacks and handouts in return for doing nothing...
...decent orchestra play your jazz tunes and you will see that there is no originality in them," he continued. Sir Thomas then said that jazz was being played in "England even more than in America. "Why they dance to it afternoon and evening and they practice mornings," he added...
...needless to go any further. The case is clear against the Nicaraguans and relations should immediately be broken off. But if any further indictment of Sandino's tactics is necessary, it need only be stated that he actually had the temerity to "carry his dead off the field". Among decent, bona fide rebels, it has always been the custom to leave the dead on the field, to be counted by the victorious Marines. Not doing so can only be construed as an act of the grossest ill-breeding. It also, like non-scouting, makes for suspicion--suspicion that perhaps there...
...holdings in Mexico were worth three or four million dollars. Since the Calles Government has tended toward a confiscatory policy on alien property, a motive for Mr. Hearst wanting to "sic" the Senate on Mexico was clear. Public implication of the four Senators was, in the opinion of the decent U. S. press (see p. 20), an impudent journalist's "stunt...
...game even, let alone a roulette wheel or a faro game. I guess Mike Hughes* won't need his 3,000 extra cops, after all. "Public service is my motto. Ninety-nine percent of the people in Chicago drink and gamble. I've tried to serve them decent liquor and square games. But I'm not appreciated. It's no use. "I've got some property in St. Petersburg I want to sell. It's warm there, but not too warm. . . . "My wife and my mother hear so much about what a terrible criminal...