Word: misbehavior
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...wishes in such matters as not knitting or chewing gum in class. But when several Northampton residents once complained that his girls should pull their shades down at night before undressing, President Neilson observed that they should pull down their own instead. Once a particularly conspicuous wave of amatory misbehavior moved Smith's administration to call a compulsory chapel. President Neilson appeared, cocked his head to one side, and instead of delivering the expected lecture remarked: "If you must kiss men, you will do well to pick gentlemen. They never tell...
Last week the U. S. Biological Survey proved its impartial vigilance when Motorman Walter P. Chrysler, good New Dealer, was summoned to appear in Baltimore's Federal district court, answer charges of misbehavior on his Eastern Shore estate last duck-hunting season. The triple-barreled charge: 1) failure to plug his repeating shotgun to three-shell capacity; 2) failure to have a Federal stamp on his hunting license; 3) shooting over a baited area. Maximum penalty on each count: $500 fine, six months' imprisonment...
...book on the same subject. Some of the other subjects discussed were the eclipse of June 19, the twenty-inch camera at the Lick Obserratory, the discovery of a red nebulosity around Antares, the appearance of a wave of bright novae, appearing in the Milky Way, and the misbehavior of the star Gamma...
...once the Grand Jury swung into action on this gross case of electoral misbehavior. In a fortnight 32 minor Election Board officials were under indictment for fraud, wilful neglect of duty. Censured but not indicted were the four members of the Bi-Partisan Election Board, composed of two Democrats and two Republicans picked by Democratic Governor Guy Brasfield Park. Last week, with the Post-Dispatch still doling out its apparently inexhaustible store of election fraud evidence, Governor Park felt it would be unwise to withhold official action longer, called in Jefferson City correspondents, announced he had removed his St. Louis...
...bring his court into scandal and disrepute ... to the prejudice of said court and public confidence in the administration of justice therein, and to the prejudice of public respect for and confidence in the Federal judiciary. . . . Wherefore the said Judge Halsted L. Ritter was and is guilty of misbehavior, and was and is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors in office...