Word: immodest
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...meddling with teachers' freedom, cited patriotic groups, Government officials, a contract one teacher had to sign to get a job paying $637.50 a year in North Carolina: "I promise to take a vital interest in all phases of Sunday-school work. ... I promise to abstain from all dancing, immodest dressing and other conduct unbecoming a teacher and a lady. I promise not to go out with any young man except in so far as it may be necessary to stimulate Sunday-school work. I promise not to fall in love, to become engaged or secretly married...
...Your life, dear friend, is quite an open book! And now, but only because I love you, I tell you that some of your remarks to L. Lucceius, the historian, pleading that he speak favorably of you--even beyond the truth if necessary make a pretty immodest page. But pray, let not this trouble you. In this day we separate a man's character from his works. And you are at least an artist, dear Cicero...
...profuse apologies only to bunt her again, if she had managed to get to her feet. After that, apologizing still more profusely, he would help her up, then send her spinning with a black eye or a clout to the jaw. In no case did Lance Corporal Mortimer make immodest advances and never was he drunk. The story told by Mrs. Alice Series, the first woman Mortimer bunted, made police think her slightly cracked. They could no longer doubt it, however, when the same story was successively told by Miss Nellie Boyes, Miss Lillian Rose Harding and Miss Lillian Harrie...
...pagan tendencies in present-day life afflict all open and attentive eyes. For many people, life is specifically and paganly given over only to pleasure, to the quest after pleasure and to amusement that is specifically and paganly immodest, with an immodesty that often exceeds that of ancient pagan life, inasmuch as it is addicted to what is termed, with a horrible word and horrible blasphemy, the practice and cult of nudity. In ancient times nudity existed only in art and could not be said to exist in life, neither in Rome nor Greece, and that is saying very much...
...dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from his realm and ruled its 6,000 inhabitants body & soul...