True piety would effectually solve such scruples.

The classy stuff is pretty to talk about, it furnishes inspiration for the dramatic writer, but it is the hocum, the jazbo, what vaudeville styles comedy acts, which please an audience.

[T]he new leader [Mobutu Sese Seko] embarked on a campaign of 'Africanisation', with […] suits giving way to the abacost (a Congolese version of the Mao jacket); […]

He started to hightail it out of there, but I stopped him at the door.