Not for her the corsets and ankle-length dresses that women of the day were expected to wear – she sported skirts that only went as far as the knees and tops with no sleeves: this was flesh-flaunting on a scale never before seen in places of good repute!
The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
In 1938, the singer Frank Sinatra was charged with the crime of seduction "for enticing a woman of good repute to engage in sexual intercourse upon his promise of marriage".
The missing premise, moreover, is also non-valid, though we can name any number of civilizations in which that maxim would "enjoy good repute".3 The enthymeme here has an ironic ring, and the irony is at the expense of the system of thinking e.g. the strategies of the British Empire within which the elided maxim may be held true.
The members of the board, including its independent members, shall be of sufficiently good repute and have adequate expertise in financial services, risk management and clearing services.
Sons of senators and men of good repute and substance who had served in the army and the vigintiviri ("board of twenty," minor magistracy) could become members by being elected, at age 25 or over, to the quaestorship.
It was only in the early years that female students were relegated to particular courses, despite Gropius's claim in the school's manifesto that it welcomed "any person of good repute, without regard to age or sex".
Because, after his end, good repute will keep his name alive.
But to have good repute amidst such a world as this is an empty thing.
