Word: condign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...penal servitude for "shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm," Mr. Justice Wright said: "It would be an unfortunate thing for this country if the use of firearms became common. I feel it the duty of this court to visit such conduct as the prisoner's with condign punishment. I hope the sentence will have some effect in deterring others from carrying loaded revolvers when pursuing their vocation of burglary." (London bobbies, pursuing their vocations, do not ordinarily carry firearms.) Gouty peers, ruffling through the London Evening Standard learned last week that: "Gunmen have struck terror into...