Word: lawlessness
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...Being a lawless rascal himself--but a gentle soul--the Vagabond feels there is too much anxiety over the Constitution and what nice piece of legislation the supreme judges will knock out next. Despite the belief of Justice Story to the contrary--beg pardon Sir--the Supreme Court has since his day frequently declared acts of congress and State legislation unconstitutional. And wasn't it back in 1828 that Jackson was elected despite Chief Justice Marshal's fears and clamors bout the constitution? Anxiety over the constitution and the Supreme Court has been with us from the outset...
...need have any misgivings as to the attitude of the Government toward lawless individuals or subversive movements. They shall be dealt with firmly. Sufficient armed forces will be maintained at all times to quell and suppress any rebellion against authority of this Government or of the sovereignty of the United States. There can be no progress except under the auspices of peace...
...less unique, apart and unreal than that of Lewis Carroll or P. G. Wodehouse. For one thing, it has a language of its own, in which a prison is a college, a horse is a beetle, an I. O. U. a marker, a child a punk. And in the lawless cosmos of this oldtime Hearst sportswriter, fictionist and cinema scenarist, criminals are regarded as diverting eccentrics; slaughter, a mere irrelevancy and the underworld, a sort of jocular never-never land. With Howard Lindsay, Depression's most prosperous collaborator (She Loves Me Not, Anything Goes), Writer Runyon...
...punished by being beaten to death. In Franconia I alone issue orders. I have ordered the expulsion of one district leader as a disciplinary measure. I will order the expulsion and arrest of any member of the Nazi party organization who allows himself to be carried away by lawless impulses...
...Creede he set up business in a modest way, running a shell game. His organizing ability, nerve and personal charm soon made him boss of that lawless town. When the Sherman Silver Act was repealed and the bottom dropped out of the silver market, Soapy went back to Denver and started a high-class gambling house. He called it "an educational institution! The famous Keeley institute provides a cure for the drinking habit. At the Tivoli I have a cure for the gambling habit. The man who steps into my place is faced with the sign, 'Caveat Emptor...