Word: immodest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evils (due to "refusal to recognize the divine majesty") : ". . . immoderate and blind egoism, the thirst for pleasure, immodest and costly styles in dress . . . the lust for power, neglect of the poor, the flight from the land, levity in entering into marriage, divorce . . . birth control . . . neglect of duty to one's country...
...says, "I learned your address. When you were studying at the Vienna University two years ago you surely had occasion to get acquainted with Viennese people and to esteem them. May I therefore with regard to those, I daresay, happy and pleasing days utter a certainly very immodest request which nevertheless might be fulfilled...
...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...