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Great & Humble. In King George's island kingdom and in the far reaches of his still vast dominions, there was a feeling of individual loss in the passing of this simple, decent man whose spare, frail person had embodied such personal endurance, such symbolic might. Far beyond the limits of his Commonwealth, in lands that offer Britain no more than grudging respect, great men and humble men paused to acknowledge the death of the British King...
Prairie Godiva. The trail-end towns seemed to be designed with two things in mind: receiving cattle and raising hell. The very names of towns like Dodge City, Ellsworth and Abilene made decent folk shudder in the 1870s. When a drunken cowboy boarded a train and demanded a ride to hell, the conductor told him: "Well, give me $2.50 and get off at Dodge." In a hair-triggered town, Dodge City's cemetery, Boot Hill, became the resting place of such characters as Horse Thief Pete, Broad Mamie, the Pecos Kid and Toothless Nell. Ellsworth was just about...
...three main characters Novelist Rooke has created solid and credible people. Paul and Mittee are decent folk, coarsened by their easy assumption of superiority. Selina is a minor triumph; when she dreamily imagines herself a white girl or secretly dresses up in Mittee's clothes, the novel takes on a fine undertone of poignance. In its modest way Mittee proves that big subjects can be well-handled in small packages...
...many teen-age boys and girls are running around in Boston, taking advantage of good decent liquor dealers," said the defense counsel for a Roxbury package store where a Brandeis University Freshman had allegedly bought eight quarts of beer...
Dean Bender responded to the article by branding the cram parlor as "a menace to decent education," and Cramer stopped his activities as an "instructor" for the second time...