Word: decentered
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...Francisco which accompanied your article (TIME, Feb. 27), I was shocked to note the district bounded by Larkin, Mason, Turk and Ellis Streets described as the "toughest part of town," and I am roused to protest. . . . The word "tough" conjures gangsters and gunmen-a district where decent citizens would hesitate to find themselves after dark and where unescorted women would be unsafe...
...worked for the Hearst papers for 8 years and never got a squarer deal. ... I was a sap for leaving him. He may never have given a leg man a decent wage, but when it came to hiring advertising men, he had the knack of getting some real producers and he paid them well. .... I only wish I were working...
...Only Decent Manner...
...sympathetic toward the D. A. R. in most matters, but I feel that in this case they have acted in the only decent manner possible. After all, it is better to pique Mrs. Roosevelt than to insult the entire white population of a big city...
...years Hearst made a thousand city room legends, hired & fired many thousands of men. He spent fortunes for trained seals, but he never gave a leg man a decent wage if he could help it. Most people hated him and he had to take his name off Metrotone News, but the few who are still close to Hearst love him with Irish sentimentality. Paul Y. Anderson called him "a horse-faced man with a squeaky...