Word: decentered
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Marshal Foch, took his seat as an "Immortal" but the ludicrous thing that occurred was not made known. Passed a decent interval. Last week Paris was at length permitted to chuckle hugely over what le petit General said when he took his seat. "Messieurs!" cried General Weygand in such ringing, parade ground tones that even aged, deaf Immortals had no need to cup hand to ear, "Messieurs, I had pre pared a speech of more than six pages* to thank you for the honor you have done me, but I left it on my study table...
...terror of the trusts" was about to publish her biography of Elbert Gary, U. S. Steel tycoon, anticipations of juicy revelations ran high. They soon ran low when it was discovered that Gary was the hero, not the villain, of the book. She pictured Gary as the champion of "decent business ethics," has been on the lookout for more ethical business heroes ever since...
...general practice of law; but it is quite true that I have clients who are much concerned with legislation, and if making arguments to Committees of Congress and dealing in a decent way with matters of legislation that affect clients is lobbying, then I have lobbied and to that extent I am a lobbyist...
...Parliamentary Bar. Possibly it might be well to have such a body of persons in this country able to deal in behalf of clients with the Congress of the U. S. ... If it be lobbying to appear in behalf of persons affected in such situation, then lobbying in a decent fashion would appear not only to be proper but necessary and justified from all standpoints...
...Reward for all his labors he sought and found in cash returns (reckoned up each year); reviews of his books (measured by inches); and the society of interesting people. After a party in London he writes: "This sort of thing is the real reward for having written a few decent books." But there were other, less pleasant rewards-headaches, insomnia, liver trouble, nervous exhaustion. At some times it "occurs" to him that he is "almost happy." At other times he writes: "Habit of work is growing on me. I could get into the way of going to my desk...