Word: dishonestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides the 5,000,000 honest illiterates, there were 5,000,000 '' proud " or " dishonest " ones, who refused to admit their deficiency.* Researches carefully backtracked the Federal statistics into States and localities, there also discovering about 10,000,000 near-illiterates-a grand total of 20,000,000 ignorami. This is: more than half the population of France, more than all the Mexicans in the world, more than all the inhabitants of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and Scotland combined...
...having any repentance today, and refused to have him respect her, so they quarreled and parted. Meantime Mr. Trimble named Tiny as a co-respondent and Poor George now did his best to win his beloved-he was even willing to sacrifice himself to make her a dishonest woman if she'd agree-but just then Miller Huggins stepped in and pled with her to make it up with Tiny for the sake of the Yankees and Tiny wired that he'd do his best not respect her if she came along. So she went down...
...amusing sketch of an English bookie who, after years of making a quietly shady living by betting on horses he never saw, comes by accident into the ownership of a real race horse, and blown with pride of possession, deliberately does himself out of a considerable bit of dishonest money for the pleasure of seeing his horse win. A Hedonist etches the collapse of a would-be laughing satyr whose avoirdupois is too much for his intentions. A Feud deals with unnecessary hatred and the wreckage it makes...
...practically the same " or " just as good " sent; goods not sent in parcels of the correct size; no attention paid to wrapping them up in wrappers that are proof against the elements. The article advises U. S. firms to exercise the greatest care in choosing their representatives, as " one dishonest agent does much harm not only to his firm but to his country-more than enough to offset the work of 20 honest agents." It also points out that in the minds of the gullible " having no previous knowledge of Americans-the conclusion is, not that that particular salesman...
...formation of an American Labor Party. Proposals to join the Farmer-Labor Party and the Workers' Party were rejected. The tatter's overtures were called a move to strengthen Communism, based on " dishonest motives and secret aims...