Word: dishonest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...switch of the star-wagon, and is instantly transported to the year 1902, when he met and married Martha. Resolved to rectify his mistakes, he says no to his heart, makes a practical match with a rich girl, amasses a fortune. His wife betrays him, associates force him into dishonest stock manipulations, he longs for the sweet girl Martha, drowns his sorrows in drink. When he cannot stand this second choice life any longer, he remembers his time-machine hidden in the attic. Zipped back into his former life, he returns gladly to his poverty, finds happiness with Martha...
...stand for the law ... to witness a man going with dripping fingers to the ballot box. The registration and voting of people who are not naturalized citizens is a crime. ... I am informed the names of such persons will be presented to you. ... If a man casts a dishonest ballot he cocks and fires a gun at the heart of America. Whether a bribe is given or taken in a Congressional election, it is a violation of the laws of the U. S. I am informed violations of this nature took place...
...they have now got rid. One of these is the Literary Digest poll. It will scarcely venture to show its face again in the Congressional elections of 1938 or the Presidential campaign four years from now. That it was so thoroughly discredited this year is not because it was dishonest or unfair in its motives or methods. It certainly will never be again the bogy or oracle as which it had so long figured in our elections. The result on Tuesday has made it and most other polls of the kind only straws which the wind driveth away. American voters...
...general psychology of our Chinese people today can be described in one word: listlessness. Our officials tend to be dishonest and avaricious; the masses are undisciplined and callous; adults are ignorant and corrupt; youth becomes degraded and intemperate; the rich become extravagant and luxurious, the poor become mean and disorderly...
...President, only deepen the mystery of Grant's personality, although they reveal more clearly than any previous work the character of his weaknesses. Telling again the story of the Whiskey Ring exposure, the panic of 1873, the affair of the U. S. Minister to England who floated a dishonest mining corporation, of Attorney General Williams who paid his large household expenses with Federal funds, of Grant's scheme to annex Santo Domingo for the benefit of his friends, Author Nevins clearly establishes his thesis that Grant looked on the Presidency as "a reward not a responsibility." Loyal...