Word: decently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will that as a political power he shall be destroyed from the face of the earth, and that every item of our strength and every bit of our courage and all of our resources we dedicate to the honorable cause of his destruction as the arch foe of decent...
...Hicks's hero is one George Swain, a decent, middle-aged fellow of the small town of Braxton, N.H., who submits to a great doctor's experiment in "suspending animation'' for a century. Anesthetized in 1940, he wakes up in 2040 -the first, as he later learns, of eight similar sleepers (the doctor hoped at least one would get through). A research scientist assigned to study his reactions encourages him to write a book about his discovery of the world of 2040, for the guidance of the seven other antiques when they wake...
Most of the actions manifested by Mr. Russell are countenanced by neither the moral, nor legal code. Many are classified as the types of crime that decent people mention only in a whisper when it becomes necessary to refer to them...
...girl who desires "the decent thing" but shoots her husband because he brings his mistresses home to tea, Marjorie Lord Combines youthful beauty with more than adequate acting. Gordon Richards as Johnny Jelliwell and Barbara Brown as his seducible wife, are good enough backdrop for Horton's inimitable double-talk comedy. The show is well-polished from beginning to end and proceeds at a rapid clip. By such clever setting arrangements as substituting paintings of still life for those of nudes between the first two acts, more is said about Casanova's conversion to "the decent thing" than through dialogue...
...Reporter Gil-fond tells with harrowing gaiety of a ten-year fight against encephalitis lethargica ("sleeping sickness"), which in her case took the form of a constant headache so painful that she had to lie down almost all the time. Her descriptions of variously officious, honest, cruel, experimental or decent specialists and the hospital experiences she had in their charge manage to be funny in spite of everything...