Word: deterent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate sit 55 Republicans elected by the people. A majority, they control Senate committees, frame legislation. A Republican vice president sits upon the rostrum. Republican James Eli Watson leads the Senate. These facts did not deter Louis Kroh Liggett, drug tycoon, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts, at a G. O. P. clambake at Fall River, in analyzing the Republican defeat in Massachusetts last year as follows...
...also feel that if there is no such pronounced public opinion sufficient to deter future offenses against good taste and the fair name of Harvard, such an opinion among undergraduates and alumni should be created under stress of such an article as was recently published in the Lampoon and sanctioned by its outgoing as well as incoming president. The editors of the Lampoon, responsible for such an article, should be made to feel not only that it injures the character and standing of the Lampoon itself to use its columns for the publication of articles in such bad taste...
...people of Massachusetts that they made a law. The next Quaker to land would get one ear lopped off. If he came back, off with the other ear! If yet again he returned, his tongue was to be pierced by a red-hot iron. These provisions failing, however, to deter the Quakers, presently the gibbet was invoked and four Quakers were hanged, one of them a woman...
...appeal to the feelings of fathers who object to hotel life for babies and children. ... (d) I plead guilty to the criminal charge of pursuing my engineering profession in foreign parts again and again. I have a fervent hope, however, that this new doctrine of criminality will not deter our citizens from extending American professions and business anywhere in the world. They always bring something home, and pay taxes on it. (e) I gather also that it is moral turpitude on my part to have managed large enterprises. The hope to rise from the ranks of labor to the ranks...
...black Fascist shirt from motives of the basest opportunism. Pertinent and even damning in this connection is the fact that most Italian Socialist leaders who were friends of II Duce's youth now languish in exile or in Fascist jails. But even this fact will not deter a reader of Claudia from wondering if Socialist Mussolini may not have been a Fascist at heart all along...