Word: heinously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should every office sufficiently exalted to arrest the interest of a capable man, or well paid enough to support him, remain in the grab bag of our party soothsayers? Why should the honest ambition of those men in our civil service who are able, but are declassed in the heinous hierarchy of our parties, be stified by the knowledge that the tempting rungs have been filched from the ladder, and are distributed by the high mok-a-mok to his faithful chieftains? Why in short, do we prattle so happily of civil service reform as a fit accompli because...
...little play is becoming too much for him. The stands everywhere convicted; either as the devious promoter of an assistant Tammany ticket to break the anti-Tammany vote, or as the clumsy agent of the President's disgust with Tammany and his determination to set up a less heinous Democracy in New York. Both of these accusations cannot be true; indeed it is difficult to decide which of them is, but in any case the Secretary has bogged himself in an unpretty fashion, and must lose much of the political prestige which alone made him valuable...
...holiday followed, his reputation for astuteness was advanced. Later the students and faculty of the Business School were given to understand that Dr. Dewing had been given leave of absence to complete a great opus on corporation finance.When he resigned, Cambridge whispered that he had been fired for the heinous sin of gold hoarding...
...failure of the attempted assassination of President-elect Roosevelt at Miami last night will probably be reckoned, in years to come, as a most lucky accident in the country's history. Casting aside the heinous nature of the crime and the personalities involved, it was an attempt which, if successful, might well have proved a national tragedy. The activities of Franklin Roosevelt since November eighth have inspired a growing confidence in his abilities, even among the die-hard members of his political opponents. To rob the victorious party of its leadership, and to place command in the hands...
...Lappish description of Lapp quarreling, drinking and reindeer-stealing (most heinous Lapp offense) see Turi's Book of Lapland by Lapland's sole author of note, Johan Olafsson Turi (b. 1860), who philosophically observes "When you will tell of everything you must write both of the ugly and the beautiful...