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Word: decently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked for the Hearst papers for 8 years and never got a squarer deal. ... I was a sap for leaving him. He may never have given a leg man a decent wage, but when it came to hiring advertising men, he had the knack of getting some real producers and he paid them well. .... I only wish I were working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...Only Decent Manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...sympathetic toward the D. A. R. in most matters, but I feel that in this case they have acted in the only decent manner possible. After all, it is better to pique Mrs. Roosevelt than to insult the entire white population of a big city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Brith Hall, the very newest and swankiest dance-spot in the city (featuring people like Gene Krupa and Buddy Rogers), the headquarters of a large proportion of the city's labor unions, both A. F. of L. and C. I. O., and any number of decent and properly conducted restaurants and stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...years Hearst made a thousand city room legends, hired & fired many thousands of men. He spent fortunes for trained seals, but he never gave a leg man a decent wage if he could help it. Most people hated him and he had to take his name off Metrotone News, but the few who are still close to Hearst love him with Irish sentimentality. Paul Y. Anderson called him "a horse-faced man with a squeaky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dusk at Santa Monica | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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