Word: dishonestly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Edmunds. "I quote from page 192 of Charles Francis Adams' autobiography: "... He was distinctly dishonest-a senatorial bribe-taker.' ... I have tried to decide who this Senator was and I am of the opinion it was Edmunds of Vermont...
...Secretary, however, takes cognizance of this difference. Said he: " Including public debt payments in the classification of military expenditures . . . is in the same dishonest category as charging up to the army the civilian work which it is obliged to perform by acts of Congress. One may even question the propriety of including the cost of operations of the Pension Bureau and the Veterans' Bureau in the list of military expenditures. These prodigious costs are to a large extent the direct result of our unpreparedness...
...responsibility of which I share, such a method cannot be permanent, and indeed cannot be used at all without danger to the very foundation of sportsmanship. Ultimately the information received by the Committee depends in most cases on the player's word. There is no questionnaire that a dishonest man cannot circumvent; and the man who wavers between honesty and dishonesty disposes with an easy conscience of questions that he regards as nobody's business but his own. A third man, high-spirited and honorable, resents what he naturally construes as a slur on his good name. Though he will...
...will deny that New York is probably the most honest city in the world. Its mayor says so; so does the police commissioner; and now the Interborough Rapid Transit has revealed through the assistant to its president even more significant proof. In marked contrast to the dishonest Western cities, New York uses only fifty thousand slugs, checks and hammered pennies a month for complimentary subway rides...
There is more good in the world than bad. There are more good men and women than bad. Where there are a few men in public office who are faithless and dishonest, there is a mighty army of high-minded sincere and devoted men who without flare of trumpets are resolutely doing the day's work. The immense number of young men and women who seek admission to our institutions of higher learning bear testimony to the love of their parents who desire to give their children opportunities which they did not enjoy. The countless gifts to colleges, to hospitals...