Word: misbehavior
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...eyes of many alert and progressive educators the fraternities stand today in a very serious and weak position. So far have they failed to cooperate or to live up to their possibilities and ideals that ... the fraternity has frequently been the most powerful organ-ized source of moral misbehavior on the campus...
...Misbehavior is less on calm days than on windy, because when weather is calm the air contains an excess of carbon dioxide, which lessens vitality...
...sprinter, whose amateur status and sportsmanship have long been questioned. The Sportsman, a magazine impeccable in taste, had damaging evidence against him (TIME, June, 11); a distinguished vice president of the American Olympic Committee resigned because of him; the British protested against him. Yet his simple denial of misbehavior and a look at the rule-book were sufficient to allow him to represent the U. S. at the IXth Olympiad. John Weissmuller, fast U. S. swimmer, untainted amateur, became the subject of a typical controversy among U. S. coaches. Should he devote all his efforts to the swimming events...
...able millionaire, but also as a philanthropist, a reformer, a church worker and a prohibitionist. Only last week the shareholder had read with satisfaction an account of S. S. Kresge's $500,000 gift to the Anti-Saloon League. Accordingly, he was sure that the alleged misbehavior, although it had remained undenied, was merely a hollow defamation...
...severest critic that she is, in reality, no Russian beauty but only poor little Lizzie Stokes. At this crisis, Esther Ralston also proves that she can actually act when circumstances make it imperative. The Wizard is one of those melodramatic mystery cinemas whose plots are based on the misbehavior of a subhuman creature. In this case, the creature (generally referred to as the "Thing") is conjured into existence by a wicked surgeon to accomplish the death of four persons; needless to say one of the four persons is the heroine and needless to say the hero, a young newspaper reporter...