Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Received from Attorney General Mitchell a report made by a subcommittee of the Wickersham Commission on the Mooney-Billings case. Its conclusions: 1) "There was never any scientific attempt made either by the police or prosecution to discover the perpetrators of the crime"; 2) "there were flagrant violations of the statutory law of California by both police and prosecution"; 3) "witnesses were coached ... to a degree that approached subornation of perjury...
...regarded by most Chicagoans as a ridiculous nuisance to be shrugged off. It was no laughing matter, however, to Judge Jarecki. "Barely one-half of the taxable property of Cook County has found its way into the assessment roll," he stormed. "Can it be maintained that an assessment so flagrant, so reeking with fraud, can be held to be a good roll...
...Gasped as decorous debate on George V's Speech from the Throne (TIME, Nov. 16) was interrupted with flagrant (but accurate) lèse majesteéby "Old George" Lansbury, new floor leader of the beaten Labor Party...
...staccato Edward ("Ted") Husing. Sharing with many football experts an impression that Wood's strategies were not such as could be expected from a Phi Beta Kappa quarterback, Announcer Husing described his play as "putrid." Harvard men wrote letters of protest. Other listeners thought it a particularly flagrant example of two failings common among sports announcers -using words without knowing what they mean, criticizing instead of reporting. Harvard's Athletic Director William Bingham wrote to President William Paley of Columbia Broadcasting Co. to say that Announcer Husing might never again broadcast games at Soldiers Field. Announcer Husing...
...pictures will, for the future, be made at a lower than average (for Hollywood) cost. The Selznick idea is to develop stars rather than buy them ready made; to recruit acting and directorial talent from the Manhattan stage; to hold down production costs by avoiding some of the most flagrant waste motion common and to some extent unavoidable in cinemanufacture. Knowing observers last week suspected that the competition from RKO which Hollywood had foreseen with so much consternation two years ago, might now be forthcoming, not from a directorate of bankers but from a clever member of Hollywood...