Word: dishonestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Careless but not dishonest" is the verdict of Harvard Square banker's on the financial practices of members of the University...
Mile. Berthon is described by the Radicals as a sweet and pretty 20-year-old girl. In the Act of Accusation she was called "a violent, lazy, untidy girl, with dissolute morals and dishonest." To the Court she said: "I regret nothing. My life shall pay for my act." She was reported, however, to have said that she regretted not having killed M. Daudet...
...Dishonest...
...artificially changing the voting population." To permit a plebiscite to be held would be, in Peruvian eyes, to "transform the Treaty [Treaty of Ancon] providing for temporary administration into a unilateral annexation; it would in time of peace constitute a conquest without precedent; it would be a shameful and dishonest conquest because it would have been done by deception and fraud." The history of the Tacna-Arica dispute starts from the peace settlement of the Chile-Peruvian...
...Accustomed to the dissipations of years of destruction, temperate men have become gluttonous, calm men avid, honest men robbers and even the best of men dishonest. Usury and appropriation is practiced under the name of business, and under the insignia of large industry a small group is engaged in.pirating against the public. . . . The ostentation of the rich has convinced everybody that nothing counts in this Heaven- estranged earth but money and what can be bought and wasted with money...