Word: lax
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eugenie, late ill-fated Empress of the French. After the dinner Charles Stambois, secretary of the club explained that "our plovers' eggs were not illegal because they were a gift," an excuse which the royal comptroller showed last week to be invalid. Nevertheless the board of agriculture, lax, had not up to last week taken steps against the Gourmets club...
Correspondents must write their news in such form that it can pass over British wires. With the story just warming up last week, and while censorship was comparatively lax, they cabled that the showing of newsreels taken as St. Gandhi set out on his march is barred in all theatres in the Bombay Presidency. Soon the news gate too will slam shut?that is, if there is any trouble...
Compared to Mary's the moral standards of Alexandra seem, almost lax. Clemenceau has said: "Edward VII . . . one day . . . invited me to a party where there were twelve women, every one of whom had been his mistress. . . . Nevertheless his wife . . . had great veneration for, him." The present Queen Empress is both a good woman and an indomitable influence for good. Last week the wives of the Delegates to the London Naval Parley twittered and chatted about her, then chatted and twittered all over again, comparing notes. For they had just had dishes of tea at the "home" of Her Majesty...
Says Wassermann: Columbus was a poor administrator, a hopelessly lax disciplinarian. When his men had smoked so much tobacco they were unable to work, his reproof was mild. Said he: "What sort of satisfaction you can get from a sort of smouldering tube is more than I can understand." No land but gold was Columbus' quest: from his first voyage he brought back little, promises of much more. On his first return to Spain he was made, according to previous agreement, High Admiral of Spain, Viceroy of the Indies, given a coat of arms,* his family raised forever...
...behind the appointment was President Hoover's desire to make Washington "a model city," to answer repeated Congressional charges that liquor flowed unchecked, that narcotics were peddled under the shadow of the Capitol, that gambling joints and brothels ran wide open, all because the D. C. police were lax and corrupt. Declared President Hoover...