Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, there are limits to freedom of speech; we all know that. The usual limitations are that statements must not be false, slanderous, libelous, blasphemous, obscene, immoral, inimical to the public welfare or tend to create warfare or incite to sedition. They must not corrupt the public morals, incite to crime, disturb the peace, create anarchy, teach soldiers disobedience of their command, impede or hinder the Government in its functioning...
Moreover, Sheik Razek does not believe the Koran to be infallible. Even if the Koran be accepted as a code for personal conduct, it is not, says the Sheik, an adequate guide to modern statecraft. He considers that the Califate* has become corrupt, incompetent-essen tial cause of the backwardness of Islam...
...British stone cold. The Star, London evening journal, summed up the British point of view when it referred to the development of Shanghai by foreign, capital from a swamp to a great commercial centre. It added: "If the American Government really meant to hand all this over to a corrupt and ignorant Chinese Mandarin, half magistrate and half bandit, American merchants and traders who have settled in Shanghai would make their voices heard in unmistakable fashion...
Symptoms, in the beginning, are those which attend the incubation of various diseases-irregular fever dizziness, hyperaesthesia of the skin, pains in the arms and legs, loss of sexual power. Forebodings appals the sufferer; faceless shapes of doom brawl in his mind; ulcers corrupt his arms; his skin greys; his eyebrows, loosened, overhang his eyes like disheveled blinds; while his voice shrinks and becomes raucous, as if he contended for possession of it with an evil spirit. Little by little, as his body rots, an odor pervades it, more deathly and infinitely more revolting than that of the carnal house...
...Court has been impressed by two unusual situations not ordinarily found in a case of this character. First, although a conspiracy is one of the bases for annulment of the lease, one alone of the many Government officials having taken an active part in its consummation is charged with corrupt and ulterior motives...