Word: flimsiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sacco Vanzetti case been tried in 1921 before a court and jury in any place in Pennsylvania, similar to Dedham, the unfortunate but necessary interjection of proof that the defendants were communists would have created such a prejudice against them that the would have been convicted upon even the flimsiest of evidence...
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin produced some curt prose worthy of his mighty father: "This document [Mr. Kellogg's Bolshevist evidence] is the flimsiest sort of propaganda. If it had emanated from any other source than the Secretary of State I venture the assertion that no reputable editor in the United States would have authorized its publication. It would have gone not to the composing room, but to the waste basket...
...Habitual Husband. The same assembly of players, directors and guarantors who lately sponsored the distinguished Candida (The Actors' Theatre) opened their season of regular evening performances with one of the flimsiest and most inexpert productions that one can easily conceive...
...Carnegie Foundation, to try to find some reward for these services, or at least to give them their due honor. But if the dispatch is to be credited, there is a sharp difference between the French society and the American. Where one was held back by the flimsiest red tape from giving an earned award, the other has recently gone to the opposite extreme, as the same news-item relates. Another X-ray scholar was Dr. Adolph Leray, who died a slow death in the same cause. The Carnegie Foundation has awarded 40,000 francs for his sacrifice...