Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public officials have been beaten down harder or oftener by Congress. Last year Morgenthau presented a dozen major tax recommendations; not one was adopted. In the final bill, written by Senate and House Committees with as little regard for Treasury feelings as was humanly decent, Congress inserted a clause which authorized it to short-circuit the Secretary in seeking advice and statistics from Treasury experts. Faithful Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley pleaded with his colleagues not "to slap the Secretary of the Treasury in the face," but the clause was adopted by a Senate vote...
...Committee, to be the President's personal Ambassador and Minister to Australia. To critics who failed to find any diplomatic qualifications in the background of hard-bitten Politician Flynn, this looked like the worst kind of lame-duck appointment. Cried Wendell Willkie: "The appointment is ... revolting to all decent citizens. The difference between the high professions of President Roosevelt's and Vice President Wallace's speeches and the Administration's low political performance is a tragic paradox...
...York gorilla, being forcibly fed in order to tell what it felt like. For McCall's Magazine she went (o Europe, interviewed the American-born Duchess of Marlborough in her fabulous Blenheim Palace. Said the Duchess: "This may be a palace, but there isn't one decent bathroom in the whole bloody place...
...early 1920s Ausborn fought against the thick-skulled youths lapping up the words of a pallid Austrian paperhanger, but by 1928 he was convinced that Hitler was destroying "everything that was decent in Germany." Ausborn left for Canada, to bring up his family in a free country...
...Labor M.P. Aneurin Bevan. Wrote Leftist Lee to the New Republic: "We over here are wondering what in God's name American diplomacy is driving at. We don't like Darlan. We don't like Franco. We don't like the idea of asking decent men to die if it is only in order to make a new Europe congenial to such as those. Justly or un justly, the American State Department is being given the credit for having brought to our side those latest allies. What does it all mean? Where are we heading...