Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Here's some of the twelfth thousand of the New York Sewer'! Here the Sewer's exposure of the Wall-Street Gang, and the Sewer's exposure of the Washington Gang, and the Sewer's exclusive account of a flagrant act of dishonesty committed by the Secretary of State when he was eight years old; now communicated, at a great expense, by his own nurse". Martin Chuzzlewit...
...dispute the Governor's characterization of the "present conditions" relating to the enforcement of prohibition as scandalous. "Open and notorious violation," flagrant acts of corruption"--if these manifestations are not enough to warrant such a demand as Governor Miller makes, then we had better stop professing to be governed by law. One point in the message should appeal with special force to those who have objected to the Eighteenth Amendment as an invasion of State rights. If we are to leave its enforcement to the Federal Government it would require "an army of agents in every State," which "manner...
...many voters in the United States today consider the ballot but an immediate opportunity to express their personal feelings on this or that question which comes to the polls. A flagrant and disgraceful example of thoughtless vacillation in the use of the franchise is seen in the result of the recent vote of the town meetings of Massachusetts. Last year the inhabitants of nearly every town within forty miles of Boston voted "dry" by a large margin, when the question of prohibition was considered. On Monday these same towns polled not only a marginal plurality but in nearly every case...