Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plain Talk for January wrote as follows: ". . . The question before the house is: Has Congress become a governmental vermiform appendix? "In the House of Representatives' membership of 435 there is not enough hair on the involved faces to stuff a pin cushion. . . . "The more lenient critics believe we are unacquainted with contemporary poetry. Well, has there been any poetry lately? . . . "Belasco could recruit a troupe from our groups-Borah, the hero; Jim Reed, the villain; and Blanton, the mob scene! . . . "The press gallery often catches and transmits the noisy nothings at the discomfiture of the aggregate wisdom. Those journals...
Dictator-President Mustafa Kernel Pasha, styled Ghazi, "The Victorious," issued an executive order: "Throughout the Turkish Republic no toy or recreational device shall be adorned in any manner with the colors of a foreign power."- Lenient, the Dictator made his decree non-retroactive; but in Constantinople the arrested kite-fliers were severely rebuked before being released, blubbering...
...several of the 48 states, the reform-urgers might have crusaded against even more lenient laws. In five southern states, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia, twelve-year-old girls may take the marriage vow with their parents' consent; in New Hampshire 13 years' experience of this world is considered sufficient for wedlock...
...even in the Chinese quarter did anyone much care what happened. The city has been the prey of super-bandits, calling themselves "War Lords" for years; and all the inhabitants faced, last week, was the arrival of another army which might be a little more lenient about looting than the last, since its leaders profess the brotherhood of Chinese against the foreigner. But small disturbances bred riots; the streets of the native city seethed with turbulent and unorganized fighting. To the International Settlement, thousands of fugitive Chinese, 100 white Russians fled, sought refuge...
...Texas laws for homicide are lenient, providing only that in a plea of self-defense the defendant shall prove that his decision to "get there first" was reasonable. "... it makes no difference whether, in fact, real danger exists. . . ." Commenting upon the Pastor's successful charge of prejudice, Texan expatriates drawled: "Texas must sure have changed, if people down there now entertain prejudice against murder...