Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pritchett gladly shouldered the blame, said that he had ordered plugs but they had not arrived. As for the stamps, it was conceded that both men possessed them, had simply failed to paste them on their licenses. Of the most serious charge, baiting, the prosecuting attorney proclaimed "a shocking disregard for the law," demanded a conviction. Mr. Chrysler explained that he regularly scattered grain over his marshes except during hunting season, said 500 canvasbacks had boarded there last winter...
...professional training as far as possible. Embryonic lawyers, doctors and clergymen could depend on the University for a "good general education," learn the special tricks of their trade elsewhere, preferably from the organized professions themselves, perhaps through special institutes attached to the Universities but independently administered. The Universities could disregard some "professions" altogether. "All there is to journalism can be learned through a good education and newspaper work. All there is to teaching can be learned through a good education and being a teacher. All there is to public administration can be discovered by getting a good education and being...
...monastic confinement of Leverett to the country club tolerance of Eliot. While the word "chaperon" stood on the statute books, when the "Aunt from Dubuque" appeared at Harvard parties, it was more through spite than invitation. Still the law stood, and many students felt guilt at the habitual disregard...
...beat-seller and no one but could be glad that it is. Tremendonaly long, dealing with the period of our greatest national crisis, written moreover from the losing (and of action and skillful characterisation, it is an experience that the American reader would be foolish to disregard...
...learned rapidly, finished her course with only a few interruptions, was soon head of a small hospital in the South. But amiable Southern disregard for her passionate cleanliness campaigns soon convinced her she could not manage the nurses. She became a private nurse, was mixed up in a ridiculous, small-city scandal, returned to New York, suffered poverty again before she got a fine but difficult job caring for a famed millionaire who was drinking himself to death. As soon as that job was over she was looking for work again. On the verge of a breakdown, she applied...