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Clint Morgan was a "woods colt" -"what you-uns call a bastard, only our way of sayin' it is more decent. More natural-like, too; kind of wild an' bred in the hills an' the devil be damned, somethin' that-a-way." Clint's girl was Tillie Starbuck; he was aiming to marry her and everybody knew it and kept out of his way, till Ed Prather came along. When Clint found Prather sneaking off from the fish-fry to talk to Tillie, the trouble started. Prather got away that time, but Clint went...
...being awakened at seven?" "Seven? seven?" said he. "I'm not awakened at seven." At this point the doubt entered my mind. Had I been dreaming? I resolved to count the strokes the next morning. There were one hundred and thirty-nine, gentlemen enough to last any sane, decent church bell almost two days. Yours for a New Deal. H. J. Shirley...
...authority and effectiveness; but he had neither of these qualities as chief executive of the nation;" William Howard Taft was a "genial, unambitious man who never got over the surprise at finding himself president;" Wilson's "chief character-defect... (was) his failure to remember that opponents could be honest, decent men." Here, again, there is nothing new. But in these and other sketches, Mr. Agar shows a detachment and insight decidedly worthy of notice...
...time is approaching when the problem of war debts must be given a decent burial. If the administration opens hasty, ill-considered negotiations now, it will be rewarded with a bumper crop of defaults. If it shows a meek willingness to take what is offered, the nominal sum which crosses the Atlantic will have more of a nuisance value than a commercial one, and will tangibly lower the nation's diplomatic batting average. The failure of ninety-five per cent of the debt-payments due last year resulted not merely from the poverty of the defaulting and token-paying countries...
...particular newspapermen who conceived and executed yesterday's coup are beyond consure. No decent words ill them. The usual human instructs of decency, and the decent symbols by which they are expressed, have thus lost meaning and significance. The Transcript says, transparently enough: "The picture men were asked by Charles Whitesido...to limit themselves to pictures of young Roosevelt in a group ...."This agreement they inexcusably violated, and then turned their rebuff into copy quite as inexcusable. The temper of a nation which demands from its newspapers photographs of women in the electric chair presents a curious problem in psychology...