Word: lawlessness
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...first time, contains little that is new. Its chief merit is the apt summary of Mr. Delcevare King's views. "The willingness with which obedience responds to enforcement is the acid test of true democracy," says Mr. Bisbee, in the course of his arguments to prove that the lawless should be abhorred as a "Scofflaw...
...crown one's mortification, our friends the English look us over and volunteer the information that Americans are a lawless lot. Lawless, forsooth Americans are the most law-ridden, law-encumbered people on the earth. With frenzied politicians catering first to the prejudices of one group having the natural breadth and average intelligence of a CroMagnon man and again to the hysteria of some other group with somewhat the same qualifications, a maze of laws has been constructed which is impossible to respect if it is understood and still more impossible to obey if it is not understood. To make...
...dictionary of the future will contain the above entry, if the popular imagination is captured by the winning word in the $200 contest which has been conducted recently by Delcevare King '95 for an epithet of bitter opprobrium applicable to a lawless drinker. From among over 25,000 words submitted by 6234 people, the winning term was chosen, according to the announcement of the award made last night by the judges...
...alone for some time has brought stability, progressive reforms, and international recognition to a neighboring country where every second child seems born a revolutionist seems beyond question. The de la Huerta faction, as far as it knows its own purpose and reveals it, seems to aim at a lawless control by the military and privileged classes. While indiscriminate aid to a foreign power is admittedly unwise, aid to the Obregon government is judiciously extended. Criticism on openly pacifistic grounds is perhaps excusable, and as such could be pigeonholed out of the way of more important Congressional business...
Then upon the scenes of lawless disorder, thundered the voice of Benito Mussolini: "I consider the reform instituted by Signer Gentile, Minister of Education, one of the most important Fascist reforms approved by my Government...