Word: demean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...post-office building to replace that antiquated structure whose granite is still chipped by water that fell on it during the great fire of 1872. And in this matter of repaying loyal party workers, no gentleman in public life, however aggrieved by elections or other petty matters, would demean himself by similarly dampening the Roman candles of this Republican triumph...
Since when has a usually admirable magazine such as TIME taken up the business of sleuthing, that they are in a position or would demean themselves as to print a statement as is shown above...
...urchins since have unwittingly assumed the habits of his tatterdemalions without their redeeming graces; the U. S. is full of juveniles?some of native, some of alien, some of unknown parentage?who are quick to become dicers, toss-pots and wastrels if steps are not taken to make them demean themselves with proper decorum. Last week, two movements were set afoot which will doubtless greatly further the moral education of these Huckleberry Finns? Polish, Jewish, Italian, Irish and American...
...that the presence of the feminine sex in goodly numbers in what was thought to be an exclusive cheering section by those assigned to it for the Princeton game (open stone part section 34) is an incentive to cheering efforts, or an implied request that members of the section demean themselves as per example of their lady neighbors, or what...