Word: decentered
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...principled gang plans his "jobs" in evening clothes, with the nicety of the inspired artist. While police are decoyed to the scene of a set-up brawl next door, his men rifle Goldberg's jewelry store in full sight of a pop-eyed audience. All would have been decent, had not Rocky Morse (Chester Morris), first assistant safecracker, proved disobedient and plugged the doubly unfortunate Goldberg in the forbidden parts. For this treacherous, unwarranted homicide, Director-General Fenmore plugs Rocky. Two young innocents become entangled in the brutal but inept police proceedings. To save them, Fenmore tells all, proving...
...some fifteen or twenty automobiles and huge loads of flowers, accompanying the burial of some obscure laborer? The collegia, in the time of the Empire, were associations of a very similar nature to those which provide the North End funerals. The Aryan faith required that a man have a decent burial, and for those who could not provide one, the funeral associations existed. While the Christians only inhumed the bodies of the deceased, the pagans used cremation as well. It was as a result of this custom that the Christians built the Catacombs to receive the bodies...
...Lundin helped make Mr. Thompson Mayor of Chicago many years ago, and that Mr. Thompson made "Rat" Robertson his Commissioner of Health. Anything is possible in Chicago politics. Mr. Thompson is even asking for votes on the grounds that he will not interfere with saloons and not arrest "decent citizens for minor infractions of the dry laws...
...ousted from the New York Evening Post's composing (i.e. typesetting) room because that newspaper desired "only decent-looking men about." Said his sister: "He seemed to me the embodiment of romance and poesy, and now, as I think of him, with his pure unselfish nature, so early devoted to what was noblest and best, I can only compare him to the high-minded boy saint, the chaste seraphic Aloysius...
...agreement definitely promises to make the full resources of the two institutions directly available to any future business branch of the Boston Public Library which may be established in the downtown district. Time and again the librarian and trustees of the Boston Public Library have labored to secure decent attention from the Boston City Council for such a branch, similar to the business branches which progressive cities elsewhere throughout the Nation have established. And time and again their efforts have been thrown down, because members of the City Council, have called this "mere graft" for the business community...