Word: decentered
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Most of the 60-odd characters are a queer lot. Catherine's greatest friends were a retired courtesan, a worn-out sea captain, and the gravedigger's daughter, who was considered hardly decent because her only dress was a sack. At the inn where peg-legged Pamploix spent his evenings the innkeeper's wife was so squint-eyed that habitues would order a drink from one end of the bar, then slink quickly to the other end, where the drink would be served. It was the great ambition of the baker's old father, a paralytic...
...Committee on Ethics & Discipline of the Massachusetts Medical Society accepted Dr. Truesdale's apology. "Dr. Truesdale," the Committee acknowledged, "realized the obligation to preserve a decent professional reserve and at the same time avoid alienating the Press, whose good offices our profession has had many occasions to acknowledge with gratitude." But the Committee found cause to snarl because "a quasi-official endorsement of the publicity was offered by the assignment of the New York Academy of Medicine of its press liaison officer to report the operation for the Associated Press." That special reporter for the A. P. was tousle...
...with graduates scattered throughout the world and attached to all manner of political, religious, and economic causes, cannot draw strict lines as to whom it will and will not cherish. About the only test it can apply is whether the man was sincere in his convictions, was honest and decent in his personal relationships, and was moved by a desire to help his followemen...
...through boarding school. Yale and the first stages of his family coal business. He cautiously gives the slip to the rather alarmingly attractive girl he should have married, and staidly weds his insipid opposite number. In Paris during the War he meets the right girl again, but does the decent thing and goes home to his wife and family. Later, when he is just on the point of breaking away for good, the resigned example and advice of his Aunt Clara send him back to harness. His last (and unconventional) act is to go down one of his mines...
...week, the excellent mechanical facilities, one wonders just why good money plus the food that can be bought by it doesn't add up to good meals. Perhaps a financial investigation is in order? After all, under the given conditions, no great ingenuity is required to serve even passably decent food. There would appear to be only two reasons behind the present indigestive contrepas; incompetence or a form of financial looseness whose obscurity does not permit of definition. In either case, a Pecora should probe the pots and pans to gratify the not too academic curiosity of the mulcted...