Word: imperil
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...unethical, even though the lawyer's fiancee begs him to do it. His fiancee does not know that by responding to her entreaties the lawyer would imperil her brother, who is the guilty client. This highly improbable quandary was deemed suitable for the transformation of Charles ("Buddy") Rogers from a wildly popular juvenile of early talkies into a somewhat hollow-eyed young character actor who does not find forbiddingly incongruous a role in which he is definitely connected with a crime and finally given a jail sentence...
...soft lumber, twice free-listed by the House and fixed at $1.50 per 1,000 ft. by the Senate, was set at $1 per 1,000 ft. after the Senate conferees had explained that further recession might cost them the votes of the Senate's "lumber bloc" and thus imperil final approval of the bill...
...revels he tried to separate her from her consort, who took the occasion to murder her. Directed and acted with Teutonic power, the picture leaves a lingering impression of the heart's treacheries. If it is widely enough shown in the U. S. its heroine (Marlene Dietrich) may imperil the favor now accorded Greta Garbo...
...injurious methods of dieting, and by bringing themselves below their normal healthy weight, while others are dangerously overweight, and "Whereas, there are at present no adequate tables which tell women what they ought to weigh, therefore be it "Resolved, that we urge the women of America not to imperil their health and that of future generations by reducing methods other than those advocated by reliable physicians...
...there was great political trepidation both in the Senate and out, for it was realized that any action, no matter how trivial, by the League would arouse the irreconcilables to new efforts, give them something new to talk about, and possibly imperil the election of pro-Court Senators next fall...