Word: decentered
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...Quite Decent (Fox). Probably the ablest of cinemothers, Louise Dresser, tries hard and resourcefully to keep her daughter away from a no-good fellow. Dimpled June Collyer does not know that Miss Dresser is her mother at all. This is not surprising because daughter and mother have not seen each other since the one's babyhood and the other's flaming youth. Also, because the mother, as a nightclub hostess, is in mulatto makeup much of the time. Because the story, de pending mostly on character, is a strong one, because the background is unusually well directed...
...exceedingly regrettable," said Politzerprasident Carl Zoergiebel in defense of his super-efficient policemen, "that bystanders were injured, but we must consider the viewpoint of the decent laborers who were not in the least connected with the uprising, and had the right to demand that the fire of insurrection be quenched as soon as possible." Another echo of Berlin's Bloody May Day was the reappearance in the news of Grigori Evseevich Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," onetime Director of the Third International, imputed author of the defamed Zinoviev letters (later proved forgeries) which caused the downfall of Ramsay...
...city. We have contributed many prominent, men to the life of this country, all of whom came from the humble homes which the Harvard Crimson criticizes, and it appears to me ill-becoming those who represent a rich and socially powerful institution to cast aspersion upon the decent people of East Boston whose struggles and ambitions should have the support of the Harvard Crimson, and not its vicious criticism." Boston Post...
...London society; the young aviator who just misses loving his machine more than his woman; Martha, earthy female; Patrick, vivid sensualist in restless search of the meaning of life. By ordinary standards, their story is howling melodrama, but in a setting of cosmic proportions it fades to the decent outlines of engrossing human narrative. Lost in the eerie privacy of a London fog, Ann and Patrick recognize that their life-long friendship is love, the real thing. Lest they shatter the life of Ann's gentle husband, Peregrine, Patrick escapes to the Midlands there to conduct relief among striking...
...pitched him into the kaleidoscopic career of a special correspondent. He covered royal weddings in Spain, religious troubles and riots in France, Stomach Tax in Canada, celebrities and murders and mysteries at home. Out of his heterogeneous experience he retains an exaggerated admiration for "the clean and decent poor" (famed Backbone of England) and for "the brotherhood of working journalists, salt of the earth." For criminals, his specialty, he has neither admiration nor sympathy-"not even a sneaking sympathy. They are a little less interesting than lunatics, a little less romantic than sewermen. Their lives are drab and ugly, fuggy...