Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lawless mob action is not to be encouraged. Yet, the despotism of minority-owned and -operated saxophones over the sleep of the undergraduate masses has flourished diurnally, or rather nocturnally, to the point where mob action has at last interfered and set a precedent. The Riot Act has been read to yodelling Rheinharts, operatic understudies, and ragtime virtuosi. The day of the proctor and yard cop is obviously past, for the undergraduate has discovered he himself is a splendid disciplinarian, and he takes a decided pleasure in his office. Gilbert and Sullivan might well have said, "When constabulary duty...
...Kurdistan is a tract of territory lying partly within Turkish borders, partly within Persian. A large part of the territory was known before and during the War as Armenia. The Kurds are a fierce, lawless people or whom the late Sultan Abdul Hamid II placed much reliance for the internal peace of his shaking Empire. Now that there are an Armenians to kill (they have been driver from the country, exchanged and massacred) it was suggested that the Kurds have nov turned to killing the Turks...
...Emphatically protesting to the United States Government against such lawless acts by their officials, obviously unable to distinguish where their own State territory ends and another sovereign country's territory begins, I am obliged to notify you that such violation of the legitimate rights of the Union of Soviet Republics, if repeated, will be sternly repressed by the Soviet Government...
...summary: Harvard Boston University Austin, Howe, Burgess, Scott l.w. r.w. Gregorie, Scott Hodder, Durant, Pruyn, Gross c. c.J. Kontoff Beals, Hamlen, Bailey, Peirson r.w. l.w. Lawless, Ling, Wenneberg Pratt, Bohlen l.d. r.d. Viano, Goldfein Ellison, Wylde r.d. l.d. M. Kontoff Cunnings, Newell g. g. Martin, Kelley...
...advanced public enlightenment more than the hate-songs of these blasphemous preverters of American liberties they do not realize that each man is no citizen of the world as well as of the United States; that six hundred thousand people, die annually from diseases preventable by public cooperation; that lawless murder has killed in the last ten years more Americans than all five foreign wars. But the perpetrators of the childlike insult to adult intelligence are not interested in real problems, they want only to affright the masses and enhance the importance of their own position as defenders of those...