Word: dishonestly
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Laborite John Beckett of Gateshead, usually decorous: "That's the most dishonest thing that has ever been done in this House. . . . Admit you're a liar, Baldwin...
Though levity on the subject of Sacco and Vanzetti may be out of place, the fall from grace of Boston's most respected newspaper has its serious elements. To many dear old ladies, the Transcript's using a dishonest headline will appear as a greater calamity than the miscarriage of justice in Massachusets. Even Mrs. Lucy P. Hayden would hardly have looked upon such an event without perturbation...
...front page. But the editor of the New York Herald Tribune may well have pondered before deciding the sensation was so unavoidable that he must assign to it Star Reporters Forrest Davis and Whitney Bolton. Both the Herald Tribune and the New York Times made pitiable (and dishonest) efforts at decency by referring to "Mr." and "Mrs." Browning. The Times kept the story off the front page-further dishonesty-but well knew that its readers would skim impatiently until they reached the most widely and avidly read divorce story in years...
...feature writer on the New York Sun. A series of articles on quack medicines, which drove several manufacturers out of business, first brought him prominence in 1906. Later he conducted a column in the New York Tribune under the name of Ad-Visor, wherein he sought to expose dishonest advertising. Gimbel Brothers, potent Manhattan department store, brought suit against him when he attacked some of their advertisements. Gimbel Brothers won the suit. Mr. Adams's novels often have persuasive titles: The Flying Death; Little Miss Grouch; Wanted, A Husband; Success. He writes for magazines and votes the Democratic ticket...
...language of truth and graciousness. Their statement that we are trying to undermine the independence of France, or that somebody wants to buy France, approaches the absurd. . . . "This constant charge of injustice and usury on the part of the United States is simply not only unfounded in fact, but dishonest in purpose." In France, newspaper editorials shrieked, "Francophobe! Sadist!"* But even Frenchmen expressed preference for open antagonism to concealed indifference. At home, people watched Mr. Kellogg wait, recalled that there is nothing in the Constitution to keep Mr. Borah from occupying both his own Senatorial chair and the Secretary...