Word: dishonest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Public Economy: ". . . Prompt and drastic reduction of public expenditure. . . . The party will continue to uphold the gold standard. Relief by currency inflation is unsound in principle and dishonest in results. An ailing body cannot be cured by quack remedies...
...charges are an] insincere, unprincipled and dishonest campaign of deliberate slander ... by a little handful of ambitious men who seem quite willing to stab the State's greatest institution in the back if they think they might thereby advance their personal or political fortunes...
...that he can filch her pearls, is an attractive and impoverished Baron (John Barrymore). In a corridor, the Baron makes friends with a pretty stenographer (Joan Crawford). She is waiting to take dictation from a disagreeable textile tycoon (Wallace Beery). The tycoon, named Preysing, is so engrossed in dishonest tricks to escape financial ruin that he fails to recognize one of his own clerks. The clerk (Lionel Barrymore) is incurably ill; he has come to the hotel to finish his last days in one burst of unaccustomed luxury. Also to be observed are a sententious doctor (Lewis Stone) with...
...Evans "dishonest?" Did Mr. Wrigley deserve a Christian eulogy? Last week these questions interested The Christian Century, best written and most alert Protestant magazine in the U. S. Far from accusing Mr. Wrigley of breaking commandments, The Christian Century hastened to say that "We know nothing particularly damaging about Mr. Wrigley, if he is to be judged in the perspective of contemporary civilization." Nevertheless it took the occasion to point a stern moral...
...again at her behest but she seemed to live in deadly fear that my wife would become on intimate terms with the Metropolitan management or with other opera stars . . . constantly warned her that the people with whom she came in contact were scheming and dishonest and that no business affairs should ever be discussed with them...