Word: dishonestly
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...When I was in Congress, I had as much as $50,000 in bills stacked on my desk- dishonest money. But I said to them: 'Take it away!' Maybe I was a fool...
...Power. Power and influence accrue to a worker, man or woman, who holds a managerial position, such as director of a textile factory or designer of bridges and so forth. Graft and corruption, if existent, are certainly well hidden. The most stringent punishments are meted out to the dishonest by the Soviet Government...
...tried the proprietor of the Dunster House Bookshop for selling an "indecent" book and imposed a jail sentence of thirty days and a fine of $500 has remitted the prison sentence. This was the famous case in which the prosecuting attorney and the judge united to condemn the dishonest and provocative methods by which the Watch and Ward Society procured its evidence. The highest court of the state had just affirmed, as a matter of law, the verdict; but the trial judge will find Cambridge opinion, as well as that of other cities and states, with him in his final...
...shows the peasants of the steppes first resisting, finally adopting modern agricultural methods in their work. Like all contemporary Russian cinemas, it is dishonest. The victory is won too easily; better times break out like sunlight at the touch of Soviet educators, while the real, secret, breath-taking drama now going on in Russia?the test of a government which has by no means proved its ability to keep faith with its policies?is suppressed. But Old and New is interesting in spite of what it leaves out. It is wonderfully photographed in the flat, wheat-colored daylight...
...intrinsically worthless. Says Critic Notch: "Anyone who reads Trader Horn at a distance of years sees it for what it is: senile drivel touched up with loving skill by a third-rate novelist." Notch attacks the Book Clubs: "The intellectual appeal of the Book Clubs is simple, frank-and dishonest. . . . Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature of his own on the subject of books, pictures, music, etc. . . . good books are not produced frequently and regularly." For such popularizers as Will Durant...