Word: flout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...R.C.A. Communications will "substantially lessen competition," the Lamont-Young deal will be held a violation of the law, will doubtless be haled before the courts. As Negotiators Lamont and Young are famed not only as financiers, but also as highly ethical businessmen and citizens, they could scarcely plan to flout the law. The only possible alternative, therefore, is the proposition that radio and telegraph do not, in fact, compete...
...eyes off its window-displays, its crowds of customers, its army of employees [but] public opinion in Britain is not yet ripe to approve the employment of responsible imaginative writers ... in any scheme of publicity for a commercial concern. Personally I differ from public opinion . . . but I will not flout...
...returned from celebrating the anniversary of the one time in all the year that his Puritan forebears had a good time. For three centuries the last Thursday in November has seen New England asceticism buried under a pile of stuffed fowl and mince pies in such quantities as to flout the good taste of a Roman Emperor. Frigid godliness in its one attempt to appear human sank for a brief holiday a bit below the line that divides hunger from voracity, and this annual fall from grace has left its mark upon a more moderate posterity. For those who find...
...with Japan, outlawing every kind of war, making the United States a kind of radial centre of world peace. France has declined to enter upon any such agreement, and is confident that the other great powers will be equally unwilling to agree on a pact which would so openly flout Article X of the League of Nations. This article guarantees that the territorial integrity and political independence of member states is to be preserved against external aggression. France has other objections in her Locarno security pledges and her treaties of protection with Poland and the Little Entente...
...Rotund and glossy Argentine Delegate Honorio Pueyrredon was first to potently outpop. His vastly rich and extensively land owning family enable him to flout whom he will with impunity. At the first session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, in Geneva, he arose and stalked out when Argentine interests seemed threatened. He stands high in the ranks of the strong, opposition, "Radical" party of Argentina. He has maintained himself as Ambassador at Washington by sheer prestige and almost in despite of Argentine President Marcelo de Alvear...