Word: disturbingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country in more international controversies than any other living man. As Under Secretary in 1914 he was the real functionary in Washington while Secretary William Jennings Bryan preached Pacifism throughout the country. Once Mr. Lansing was aroused from bed to digress on international law. It was held "unnecessary to disturb Mr. Bryan." In the tense crescendo of feeling which led to the War, Mr. Lansing succeeded Mr. Bryan, was shrewd, logical, firm. He squashed propaganda, refused to be gulled by German Ambassador von Bernstorff. Elihu Root remarked an improvement in state papers...
...great naval duckhunter is Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, who likes to have a Navy plane carry and fetch him between Washington and the salt marshes during the duck season. The new Barnegat order is not likely to disturb Duckhunter Robinson, nor any other Washington dignitary. From Washington one does not go northeast to shoot the wary?and slightly fishy?birds of Barnegat. One either goes due east, to the swarming Chesapeake ; or southeast, to the Rappahannock, York and James estuaries, to the drowsy Virginia Capes, to Currituck (where the luxurious blinds are con crete and have...
...others wondered whether the Freshmen were always allowed to sleep at will, whether Sophomores did not often disturb. Was there not, they asked, an old fraternity song which told about Freshmen who trembling on their couches...
...Marine Corps, so disciplined his men and so terrorized the gangsters that before he left he had made himself unpopular also with the pleasure-loving Better Element. His farewell to the city included the charge that the then Mayor, W. Freeland Kendrick, was unwilling to disturb rich prohibition violators or alleged violators, such as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Since General Butler's departure, Philadelphia policemen have paid as high as $1,000 for the privilege of serving on the famed Butler Enforcement Unit No. 1. Such evidence reeks of bribery...
Prostitution: "Mr. William Allen White sailed for Europe with a happy and contented mind. I hope, and I would not disturb it by attempting to describe to him the heavy weight that he laid upon my family when he accused me of being a friend of prostitution. . . . My record as an opponent of immorality is fixed and secure. Publicly and by many letters in my possession, the late Rev. Canon John P. Peters, when chairman of the Committee of Fourteen, the leading anti-vice society of New York, repeatedly thanked me for my co-operation with that organization...