Word: dishonest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designed to crush the insignificant Communist," observed Laborite Dave Kirkwood judicially, "but in the hands of incompetent, dishonest police it could be applied to great innocent masses." Shrilled Laborite Aneurin Bevan, "With this bill the Attorney General admits that it is to be illegal for a British soldier to be a Christian...
...four are interrelated. Otherwise li without i becomes dishonest; without lien becomes extravagant; without ch'ih becomes flattering. All these may appear like li but really they are not. ... In like manner, ch'ih without li will be chaotic; without i, violent; without lien, ugly. They are no longer...
Curly-headed Earle Wood Evans, president of the Bar Association, willingly took up the job of chastising a segment of his own profession. "The Bar . . . has been strangely apathetic toward dishonest lawyers," cried he, "and toward that offensive creature usually found in the large centres of population who advises clients how to commit crimes with the minimum risk of detection. . . . To the extent that they advise clients in advance how to commit crimes, whether crimes of violence or commercial frauds, to that extent they are as clearly lawyer criminals as are any of the so-called criminal lawyers, and should...
...mayor, Ezekiel Cobb comports himself like a combination of Fiorello La Guardia and Charlie Chan. He says: "Honesty without experience is as water with no bucket to carry it in-Ling Po." He sets out to gain experience by discharging every dishonest employe in the city government, awarding a garbage disposal contract to the lowest bidder instead of to the grafter who expects it. When outraged politicians slip a package of incriminating bonds into his safe deposit vaults, Ezekiel Cobb decides to use brusque methods. He rounds up every malefactor in Stockport, locks them in a cellar, threatens to have...
Girl X: She called the editor of our school paper "radical and intellectually dishonest...