Word: outlaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ought to consign jazz to a hotter place than this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...
...citizenry of New Orleans around 1800 could not take offense when he came boldly ashore to do business with them and dance with their daughters to the wailing guitar. In 1812 the British tried to buy him up to betray his favorite port. He pondered. He was Jean Lafitte, outlaw. The northern barbarians who ran the country of which New Orleans was but an exotic new part, had set a price on his head. Nevertheless, honor told him that his hosts' friends were his friends. He fought under Old Hickory...
...heading "In Douglas." . . . We would be very pleased to know whether the intention of the writer was to belittle the Chamber of Commerce and Mines of Douglas, Ariz., as an organization. . . . Or was it the intention to be recorded as in favor of further punishment of the three outlaw baseball players, who have been sentenced and served that penalty for the crime that Judge Landis said they committed? Whether these baseball players were guilty or not guilty is no concern of ours. However, we do know that they have paid the penalty for the alleged crime committeed...
TIME, which never comments editorially, most certainly does not "object" to the presence on the Douglas baseball nine of Hal Chase, Chick Gandil and Buck Weaver (famed "outlaw" players). TIME merely stated facts: the outlaws have been playing baseball in Douglas, and very good baseball, at that; the members of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce and Mines (who pay the ball players) are glad that the outlaws are playing there. These facts seemed to be of sufficient general interest to warrant publication. No disparagement of anyone was intended. The full text of the article can be found on Page...
...world-wide onslaught on British shipping, the hand of Moscow was seen. Many of the leaders of the outlaw strike were known to be Reds. The owners offered to remit penalties if the sailors would return to work promptly. The officers of the National Seamen's and Firemen's Union denounced the strikers, but conditions grew worse rather than improved...