Word: decentered
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...consider an insufferable impertinence on the part of modern publishers, to whom the advertiser is the commanding force and who treat the convenience of the readers with contempt. I recognize, of course, that the income from advertisements is necessary in meeting expenses, but it could be done in a decent way, so that the advertisements would be detachable and the reading matter remain preservable. But this suggestion, I have found, is treated with derision...
...Seat." This was neither a scoop for the Telegram-News nor an omission of ignorance. The omitted candidate was Lynn M. Ranger, president of the Lynn City Council. In 1927, when Mayor Curley jailed him, Publisher Enwright received a letter from Mr. Ranger alleging an Enwright "plot to defeat decent government." Result: Mr. Ranger's name is never printed in Mr. Enwright's newspaper...
Beaming, the Vice President explained: "It was the decent thing to do. It was the nice thing to do. It gives us great pleasure to do what we think the courteous thing...
Among the professional tennis players who gathered for their championship last week at Forest Hills, L. I., were many whose jobs at country clubs keep them teaching children and patting easy serves across to elderly ladies who want to reduce-keep them, in short, from ever getting a decent match. Most of these had not come to Forest Hills in the hope of winning but because they wanted to play some tennis...
...early in the proceedings grants the Warriners an interlocutory decree of divorce is clearly in collusion with the author in his determination to bring things out happily. After the hearing he leaves the two who are no longer husband and wife alone in his chambers. Coming in, after a decent interval, he is so hopeful of a reconciliation that he is bold to ask Ina Claire whether "anything had happened," and Miss Claire, who has spent her respite quarreling with Henry Daniel about opening a window, answers laconically, "Nothing unusual." You might lift her phrase from its context and apply...