Word: dishonestly
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...realize that that is just Winnie's way." Attlee was so pleased at this passage that he glanced challengingly at the blazing sun, then set his soft black felt hat on his head and resumed. The Tory platform, he said, was "one of the most dishonest documents I have ever read...
...life which began this week. "A newspaper such as yours," he fumed, ". . . should never undertake to publish the story of my life without my express consent ... I have served 34 years as the head of the Jersey City government and I dare your newspaper to publish one dishonest act of mine ... or point to one breath of scandal or dishonesty in my administration." The News went right on with the Hague biography...
...that were legal when committed, or for no acts at all. Far worse is the end result, which will be that critics, even of the mildest sort, will be frightened into silence . . ." Loyalty oaths for teachers are utterly useless, said Hutchins, "for teachers who are disloyal will certainly be dishonest; they will not shrink from a little perjury...
...tell President Allen that he was a Communist, that he did not tell the Canwell Committee that he was a Communist, that he neglected his duty to the University by spending his time in party "front" activity, and that he followed the party line, thereby rendering himself incompetent and dishonest...
...fell in love with 18-year-old Ellen Ternan (who didn't love him, says Author Pearson, but "placed comfort before chastity"), he had little compunction about booting his wife out of the house, retaining custody of most of the children and giving a thoroughly dishonest version of his behavior to the newspapers. He aroused millions to compassion for "fallen women," but once, hearing a young girl swear obscenely on the street, he had her marched straight off to jail. It was this inability to see life (or himself) in consistent proportions that was his strength and weakness...