Word: condign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady Astor asked, amid cheers, that a committee of inquiry be set up for the purpose of repealing the law under which the police arrest women for soliciting. She observed that, if a man were charged with annoying women, evidence of the persons annoyed was required to effect his condign punishment...
...Secondly: Prosecute an inquiry into the authorship of the crime with the utmost energy and without respect of persons and bring the criminals, whoever they are and whatever their age, to condign punishment...