Word: decentered
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...like a father to me. I loved him . . ." Ellen let him have both barrels of her repressed contempt: "I hate him, and I hate you-part of you . . . That man-this place-they've eaten you up, between them. Eaten up everything that was alive and honest and decent, everything I respected. You're not a man any more . . . You're a piece of-of protoplasm...
...Chicago realtor, Federal Housing Expediter Tighe E. Woods can sympathize with landlords caught between frozen rents and swollen costs. Woods also knows that rent controls would be unnecessary if moderate-income families could get decent houses at decent prices...
Mulling over the conversation, Mrs. Grant determined to get decent houses for Negroes, decided to build them herself. She got together over $100,000 to buy a 50-acre tract in south Los Angeles, and started looking for money to finance the building. Not a banker in town would listen to her: "Ideals are fine," one told her, 'but you must, be practical." But Mrs. Grant kept wearing them down; finally, the Bank of America, which prides itself on financing the "little fellow," agreed to stake her to a $2,290,000 loan...
...through several decades. But Mencken seldom descended to personal brawls in print. Like many a man with a terrible pen, he preferred the assault on the group. Says he: "I have never found it difficult to be on good terms, personally, with my enemies. I always try to choose decent ones. When I encounter a mucker, I simply avoid...
...Charley Gray," prototype of the millions of decent, middle-class U.S. citizens who burn themselves out in the race to pass the Blakesleys and creep up on the Burtons, is the central figure in the new novel...