Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this council to declare that the now-appearing billboard advertisement which portrays a young lady reading a letter to the effect that girls who seek pleasure in smoking are flocking to that given brand of cigarette, is an advertisement which merits strong disapproval and censure, because it is a flagrant luring and seductive effort to entice the girlhood of America to the habit of smoking...
...advantages of this plan are enumerated by its author. It abolishes the possibility of flagrant neglect of work; it changes the professor from a quizzer to a guide; it removes the threat of periodic examinations and of the cramming that anticipates them; and for the old lock-step education it substitutes individual freedom of movement. Although President Holt in criticizing the recitation and lecture system of Yale and Harvard is brave and heralded in combatting the present movement toward complete freedom in study, his retrogression toward the grammar school is quite unacceptable. The virtue of final examination is at present...
...deserving pity rather than scorn, do not. The same categories apply to the joke by Alice Jr.'s father, Colyumist Hope of the New York Herald-Tribune. Though his verse falls far short of Lewis Carroll's the narrative (packed as it is with social & political quips, flagrant puns and rare etymology) does credit to the English mathematician, and surpasses in satire more serious-minded modern U. S. Jeremiads. So also Rea Irvin's illustrations, which are excellently done...
Sere, august Representative Burton of Mr. Brand's home State promptly called attention to Mr. Brand's inconsistency (TIME, March 26). It seemed a flagrant case of bootlicking by Mr. Brand in 1925 and hamstringing in 1928. Mr. Burton called it "vicious." Mr. Brand left the floor of the House flabbergasted, humiliated, speechless...
...regret that flagrant cutting on his part of spring football practice has made it necessary for this office to place D. T. Lampwick '28 on probation. It is my sincere hope that the action of this office will exert no moral influence on the remaining members of the squad before the coming encounter. M. A. Stevens...