Word: irregularly
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...leading afternoon paper, which had fought him tooth & nail since he invaded Seattle in 1921. Clarance Brettun Blethen's Times not only printed Mr. Hearst's pronouncements, but independently condemned the strikers and their tactics. These, it seemed to rich, reactionary Mr. Blethen, were outrageously irregular. The Hearst pressmen were remaining away from work in violation of their "contractual obligations" and without consent of their international officers. The picketing was being largely conducted by unions, which had no legitimate interest in the dispute. Moreover, Seattle's Mayor sent no police to escort the News...
...suing her onetime husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, for full custody of their 4-year-old daughter, the Los Angeles Superior Court awarded the child for nine months a year. Before rendering his decision, Judge Goodwin J. Knight called for Miss Astor's diary in which she recorded her irregular love life and which Dr. Thorpe's lawyers tried to use obliquely to disqualify her as a fit mother. After four hours of reading the manuscript from cover to cover Judge Knight ordered the diary impounded with the court...
...Bendix prize for the meet's longest distance flight went to Chester J. Decker of Glen Rock, N. J. On the last day of the meet he took off from Elmira, climbed to 5,500 ft., found a "street" (chain of cumulus clouds). Swinging beneath it in long, irregular parabolas from cloud to cloud, he proceeded to Ottsville, Pa., where he glided down - 146 miles from Elmira. His flight narrowly missed the U. S. record of 158 miles...
...they found themselves facing fellow Chinese troops they stopped, camped, waited. Meanwhile at Nanking the Japanese Military Attaché, Major General Seiichi Kita, spilled a great many beans by nervously observing that if it should be proved that Japan had sold munitions to General Pai there would be nothing irregular in that. Cried this dimwit Attache: "Japan of course sells munitions to whoever will pay for them...
...wagons. They do $15,000,000 business a year. They slander our advertised products. They slander the American Medical Association. They should be stopped." Recently stopped by court order was Philadelphia Nuva-Dex Co., generally rated the biggest supplier of psyllium seeds, liniments and cure-alls of this irregular commerce...