Word: flagrant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Second baseball team will wind up its season preparatory to the Yale game when it opposes the Westbrook Seminary nine on the Second team diamond this afternoon. Coach Stuart has been drilling the men during the past week to remedy a few flagrant faults, and this afternoon's game will be of added importance because of its bearing on Friday's game at New Haven...
...Republican party under present leadership has forgotten the principles upon which it was founded and become a party of hypocrisy and deceit. ... Its record lies in a wreckage of broken promises and repudiated pledges. . . . There never was such a flagrant betrayal of party promises, such a complete failure to solve present-day problems. . . . Not only have they attempted to increase the cost of living . . . but this Ad ministration has given encouragement to every effort to reduce the wages of the wage-earner and to in crease the profits of the conscience less gouger...
...true, however, that in recent years the "activities and powers of the Federal bureaus" have increased; yet it is obvious that more regulation by the government has been made necessary by the flagrant abuses which sprang up during the brief period when competitive activities ran riot. The cases of the Standard Oil Company, the Chicago meat packers, and the railroads are too recent to have been quite forgotten; and they serve to prove rather pointedly that the "spur of competition", for which Mr. Mackay pleads, leads but to monopoly and its evils. His case rests upon the assumption that...
...protest against the flagrant outrage done the Mother of God by recent widespread and blasphemous denials of the Virgin Birth of her Divine Son," Bishop McDevitt of Harrisburg, Pa., sang a solemn pontifical mass at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Manhattan. Archbishop Hayes presided...
Among most of the states of the Middle and Far West the issue is regarded as closed. But the East will not have it so; and until some fairly definite expression of public opinion, one way or the other, is had, violations of the law will continue to be flagrant and the present intolerable state of affairs will not be remedied. The question is serious, and undergraduates who cast their votes seriously today in the local referendum upon it will be performing a real service to the country...