Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...culinary department that his mis-management was most flagrant, and most felt. According to a contemporary account, the daily diet was mostly "porrige and pudding served without butter or suet." Mrs. Eaton, on whom her husband blamed the Squeersian board, admitted that "the flower was not so fine as it might nor so well boiled and stirred, and that the fish was bad." Pressed as to the presence in the menu of one of the most stable of foods-today, the lady said, "Beef, they never...
Scandalized, Spanish jurists declared this action "extralegal, flagrant and without precedent...
Unquestionably the U. S. has lost a certain amount of prestige in Latin America through the failure of negotiations thus far. The U. S. position was sufficiently set forth by General Lassiter in his speech to the plebiscitary commission, released at Washington last week: "Flagrant as have been the outrages to which Peruvian electors and sympathizers have been subjected and pitiful as have been the sufferings of the helpless victims it it not these outrages themselves that in my opinion have constituted the most serious phase of the long continued course of violence, oppression, persecution and discrimination that "has marked...
...years ago. It is a badly dated play about a butler who resembled and is symbolically identified with Christ. The shrewd skeptic of this inquiring day will say that the philosophy is obvious and behind the times. Even the most careless of steady theatre-goers will recognize the flagrant artificiality and the veteran creakiness of the structure. Walter Hampden gives his usual correct and melodious performance...
...desire for institutional reforms manifested among college students, but accounts college chapels and inter-collegiate athletics subjects of lesser weight. On these, the thesis runs, the revolt wastes its strength before touching the momentous concerns of the hour. While stupidity in political management and inefficiency in governmental administration remain flagrant, the Times would advise students to fix their attention on the sore spots of the nation...