Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protective cordon of detectives. Henry Moy protested in advance that although five members of his Tong had been slain in a few days, no reprisals had been taken or would be taken: "We shall not do so, unless driven to it in self-defence. Our society is anxious to obey the law. Hip Sings are law-breakers and cannot be depended on to follow out any instructions given by the authorities toward the suppression of disorder...
...better to obey God than man, and I am fully persuaded this prompting is of God. Call me fanatic or what you may. Soon after Will K. Reeme of Kansas City, Mo., insurance man, ardent Prohibitionist, was arrested, charged with writing an "indecent letter."* He admitted his authorship...
...officials themselves do not obey it. Even the present Secretary of the Treasury, charged with the enforcement of prohibition, is obliged, in order to serve wine at his table, to violate the law which he has done either personally or through agents, by buying cellars of Washingtonians who, under the law, are not able to take out of the District of Columbia alcoholic beverages, I know that Mr Mellon has done this, because he bought red wine that I wanted myself a few years...
...Senator's "sheerly legalistic world court", it may seem impossible, but no attempt has been made to obtain it. It should be quite obvious that no justice can be expected from a body whose decisions will be guided by the question of whether the disputants will obey them; yet such must necessarily be the nature of the decisions of any body connected with the present league which is merely a device for imparting a moral flavor to the acts of the dominant continental powers. The World certainly does need a League of Nations, but it had better have none than...
Cambridge police have entered upon a campaign of law enforcement which can end only in arrests unless students obey parking regulations...