Word: decently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin with an attack on marriage bureaus, an appeal to virile Nazi youth to speak directly for itself. The writer, Herr Doktor Paul Danzer, summed up: "Marriage bureaus have a disagreeable taste for the more sensitive young people. . . . There should be no special measures necessary to enable a decent young man to accost a girl-provided the girl makes no resistance. [Ohne besondere Massnahmen käme es dann dazu, dass der anständige junge Mann ohne Widerstand auch ein fremdes Mädchen ansprechen könnte...
...friends in power!" (TIME, July 4.) To every candidate for Congress, President David Lasser of the Alliance sent a questionnaire, the answers to which would be "made available to your constituency." Sample question: "Do you favor an increase in wages to the WPA workers to permit them a minimum decent existence...
...both to keep house and cook his meals for three weeks. One day he received a letter from Philip Bauer of Brooklyn. "I would like to correspond with the lady who may be the loser," said Philip, "I am 44 years of age and would be interested in a decent person. ..." This week Judson chose May, Nellie went home, Philip got neither. Reason: Philip was already married...
...those which have been condemned by the Church in other countries," 3) allying themselves with the Fascist and Nazi nations. The Commonweal urged Catholics to avoid stirring up hate and violent partisanship in the U. S., to stave off anti-Christian totalitarianism by making the U. S. "a thoroughly decent place to live in." Michael Williams, still a special editor of The Commonweal, protested in the same issue against this change of front, declared he was satisfied by the available evidence (principally the joint letter of the bishops of Spain) that Spanish Leftists had planned to wipe out the Catholic...
...Bail of $1,000,000 would not be too much!" boasted his lawyer, as Jimmy Hines produced $15,000 in cash from his pocket and promised to get another $5,000 promptly. "Thousands of decent citizens would come forward to add their share. . . . Why, a few years ago the President of the United States praised Mr. Hines for his humanitarian activities. . . . He's almost an angel...