Word: decentered
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...graduates this spring, particularly if his home is in or about New York City, there is a chance for practical and effective political action. In the mayoralty election in 1933 the chances for replacing Tammany control with decent government are greater than they have been for many years and may be for many years to come. The opportunity has arrived for the college man, with ideals of good government, to associate himself with a municipal reform which has prospects of success. Whether the reform will come from outside Tammany, with a fusion ticket, possibly headed by Mayor McKee, or from...
German cartoons covering Dr. Bracht's efforts to force Prussian ladies to "decently cover" their backs reached the U. S. last week. "It is hereby decided." decreed Dr. Bracht, "that the dorsal opening in feminine costumes shall not be cut so low as to be excessive." At first Dr. Bracht was understood to mean that evening gowns could be cut only a trifle less than shoulder high. In desperation Berlin and other Prussian shopkeepers waited upon the style dictator, told him that almost their whole stock of women's evening gowns would be rendered worthless by his decree. These gowns...
...America, mature in its powers, united in its purpose, high in its faith can come and will come to better days." Since he flew to Chicago in early July to accept the nomination, Governor Roosevelt has stumped 17,000 miles-a record. His campaign was spirited, ingratiating, comparatively decent and free from bad errors on which G. 0. Partisans waited in vain to pounce. He had been careful not to promise too much. His travels had effectively silenced Republican talk that he was a crippled weakling who could not stand the White House strain...
...London clubs: threatened by a Moslem fanatic in Darfur, he had turned Moslem under pressure! Letting England down, what? Worst of all, the fellow had written a poem about it, had the impudence to publish it. The ensuing scandal ran his book up into a bestseller. Of course most decent men sent the scoundrel to Coventry. But Dinny stuck by him, even in the face of family disapproval. Luckily the fellow had enough grace to leave her, go back to the East where these things do not matter so much. It was a near thing for Dinny, but the implication...
...accused of "slurring" the Court's high character. Two Republican ex-Governors of New York (Whitman and Miller) were publicly amazed and shocked. Paul Drennan Cravath, whose person might have been the model for Cartoonist Rollin Kirby's personification of the G. O. P., was sure all decent lawyers would "resent" the statement. President Hoover at Indianapolis thundered...