Word: flagrante
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Business came to the front when it was recommended that a committee be appointed to cooperate with a similar committee of the National Association of Credit Men in attempting to remove the more flagrant abuses of the bankruptcy...
...before I could even begin to frame a sentence, I was seized from both sides and ejected forcibly from the hall. The outrage left me flaming with indignation on the steps. To realize that Harvard, which makes so much of its traditional free speech should tolerate such a flagrant breach of its principles by its hirelings! I determined that this atrocity should be followed up immediately. It was, As I picked myself up the doors behind me were opened and a shower of my books and papers caromed off my head...
...quote a-mixed metaphor from W. L. George is nothing more than a weakly flagrant instance of pro-British pro-paganda. The following gem has been plucked no farther afield than the doors of Warren House...
...next. During the War, we heard much about German propaganda; now the Germans themselves are complaining about the unfair use of this "weapon". German spiritualists (and Germany is a very "spiritual" country) have alleged that the French and English mediums broke every provision of the Hague Treaty by their flagrant misuse of psychic forces during the "late unpleasantness". "Mass prayers", they charge, more often and often employed at given hours to send great currents of malignant thought--energy over the German lines. The frequent downhearted condition of the German soldiery, erroneously attributed to the incomplete assimilation of too much sauerkraut...
...Democratic Representatives, just before Christmas, blocked action on the Dyer Bill, they professed to object only to its form; but as a matter of fact, underneath their arguments was a defense of the practice itself. Such an attitude, to the unprejudiced, can admit of no defense. Lynching is a flagrant crime against reason and justice. It stands as a symbol of America's barbarism in the eyes of civilized nations. President Harding, not long ago, stated his hopes for the negro race, with emphasis on their right to equal justice. As long as lynching persists, that right is denied them...