Word: decentered
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...plant one discovers the secret of Warden Lawes's success. Mechanical details of organization are duly attended to, but predominant throughout is the personal, the human element. In focusing his attention, Lawes turns almost involuntarily from administration to the individual, the unhappy "con," fighting his way back to decent society. Consequently one is not surprised when the third section of the work unrolls to find therein a passionately sincere plea for more intelligent treatment of prisoners...
...pains of promiscuity. Letty Lynton (Joan Crawford) not only has lovers. She has one who is patently the lowest grade of Latin American, and she kills him with a dose of poison. So rude and forceful are his amorous tactics that she has the full sympathy of all decent members of the audience. She is driven to distracted crime by her high-minded affection for a young Bostonian (Robert Montgomery). Her low Latin despises this affection, threatens to cut it short. Letty Lynton's misdemeanors are committed with complete impunity. She is saved from the consequences of committing murder...
...most serious of menaces to American principles is the increasing abhorrence of educated young men for politics. Politics is no longer a decent profession. . . . When a government has fallen in the estimation of a people so that the finest and strongest people will not take part in it, that government is on the wane. The American Government is menaced by a very real, nation-wide disgust of this kind...
There was no mob to begin with, just a decent, orderly procession of substantial Newfoundland folk. Marshaled by a Catholic priest and two Protestant clerics they tramped through the streets of St. John's to the Colonial Building (Parliament House), begged leave to present a petition at the bar of Parliament humbly alleging that Premier Sir Richard Squires had been guilty of malfeasance and had falsified the Executive Council's minutes ? two charges made in the Assembly by former Finance Minister Peter Cashin when he resigned a week before the February riots. In 1925 and again...
...before the scheduled death of Prisoner Jones, Governor Andy Kent begins to feel himself cracking up. "If only the victim had been a less decent sort. If only he had cursed?or sworn? or fought. . . . But how can you dig a grave for such a man?you enter his cell at midnight, to make sure the officers who keep him from suicide are not sleeping?-you see him sobbing all over, like a child." When Governor Kent passes the open grave, sees the quicklime piled beside it, his conscience rises with his gorge; rather than carry...