Word: decentered
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...Your article on Dr. Kinsey and his work made me furious. The article treats "sex" as something dirty. This is obvious from the insertion of the smutty cartoon by Peter Arno . . . Decent, healthy people, who can enjoy love, regard Dr. Kinsey's work as a serious, scientific study, and do not try to undermine the effects of this work with...
Grandma carried Menen's confusion a step further by explaining why no decent Hindu could want to become a Briton. The British were so foul and insensitive a race that they never bathed more than once a day, and thought nothing of actually sitting in their dirty bathwater. Lewdness and promiscuity they accounted virtues, for which reason they permitted their children to marry only when they were long past the age of chastity. They were so shameless that instead of retiring to a dark corner to eat, they engorged grossly at a public table, where all & sundry might witness...
...vilified. He was highly vulnerable to attack because of his thinking-out-loud type of speaking; his loose sentences could be lifted out of context and thrown back at him with deadly effect. It was no good for friends to point out that he was a man of decent motives who, in the years he served in the Senate, developed from his own careful studies legislation directed to improving housing (the housing lobby accused him of socialism), improving education, improving health. This was not the point...
...eyes on lovely, humble Amparo, the other senoritas had no chance. He proposed and Amparo accepted. There was just one problem: Amparo had once been seduced by a sinful priest, who kept popping up and asking for further favors. She was too weak to confess to her suitor, too decent to deceive him. To make matters worse, there were people who knew about her slip and were just envious enough to tell all to Agustin...
...Hueysville, Ky. Her mother was the daughter of Hi Fitch. The deceased George Fitch, of the Mouth of Brush Creek, was her uncle. A few words to mothers: If your son happens to get in jail, I will see that he has good treatment, plenty to eat and a decent place to sleep...