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...treatise on parliamentary procedure which has been revised at intervals ever since. It includes a list of insulting words and phrases which the Speaker has ruled unsuitable for use in House of Commons debate. Among the banned expressions: insulting dog, behaving like a jackass, cad, caddishness, scurrilous, vicious vulgar, dishonest, swine, corrupt, criminal, blether (as applied to a speech), Pecksniffian cant. Last week the fifteenth edition of "Erskine May" was published; it showed four new epithets barred since the war's end: not a damned one of you opposite, stool pigeons, cheat, bastard...
Increased size inevitably brought severer headaches. Years earlier the Hartfords had set up teams of traveling auditors to check price tags and weights in all the stores and report back to them directly, thus keeping tabs on the empire. There was always the chance that a dishonest store manager would overcharge, short-change or underweigh. But honest managers also were squeezed. They got so little leeway in their allowances for breakage, spoilage and pilfering that some of them felt they had to cut honesty corners to make a good competitive showing...
Ideally, there are ten copies of a particular book for every hundred prospective users. Five dishonest men can halve the ratio and "cause trouble for 100 others," McNiff pointed...
Referring to your article, "Dishonest Abe," in which you assert that Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time . . ." etc. [TIME...
...smile as she recalls some of the differences that stood between her and her husband in those youthful days, e.g., his conviction (the result of his gentle upbringing) that one should always pay one's bills. "I was truly shocked when Mike informed me . . . that cheating tradesmen was dishonest"; and she barked at him reproachfully: "You're a fine editor of the New Masses...