Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters are these: Mrs. Walton, the mother of Gracia and Marge; Gracia and Tom Wilson, her husband; and Marge, who, as the book opens, is being married to John Graves, a man much older than she. Of this group, only Tom Wilson is a normal and decent person. Mrs. Walton is a grown-up baby; Marge, who has long pursued a young aviator, David Roberts, is pathetically lustful; Gracia is a self-indulgent, sentimentalist, and John Graves is a washed-out pedagogue. Also present are Kate Harris, a scientific spinster of amorous regard, and Murray Bartlett, romantically in love with...
...Government expropriated a lot of foreign property, Mexican Ranch Owner Hearst, who said not one public word against the collectivist Cardenas regime and thus came through into the sunnier Avila Camacho regime with the loss of only 18,000 of his million-plus acres, declared: "They were pretty decent about that. They didn't take any more than was right. After all it is their country." - The Millville, N.J. Board of Trade banqueted well-paunched Defense Commissioner Leon Henderson, elected him, as a native son, No. 1 Citizen for 1940 of Millville (pop.: 14,705). - Day after...
...this Crimson broke not only the standard of any responsible, decent, and accurate press, but even the standards of the yellow and sensational press were about exceeded by it. In spite of a seeming wide popularity of all the ideas ascribed to me by Crimson and by press and radio, they are the invention and ideas of those who have written them. The authorship belongs to them, not to me. I stand firmly for the ideas I expressed, but I do not have a slightest claim of authorship for the ideas which are, in my opinion, silly, stupid, obscene...
...current 70 comic books a bare 20% are reprints of newspaper "funnies"-a minority which by comparison are decent. However, few newspapers carry innocence in funnies so far as did the Baltimore Sun last week: It dropped Winnie Winkle because she is going to have a baby...
...honor still. The Biblical and Whitmanesque views of life, which are in Fearing's blood as well as in his style, can bear repetition. As long, at least, as Tom, Dick & Harry are free to guess that human life, in their quarter of the planet, is far less decent than it has the inalienable right, and the bounden obligation, to be. Fearing's book, in spite of its often bombastic bitterness, can give to readers some feeling of that right, and sense of that obligation...