Word: outlawful
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Yugo-Slavia, of course, protested to the League of Nations against the acts of aggression by the Bulgarian outlaw bands...
...last point that Mr. Sullivan mentioned was the movement to outlaw the submarine, urged by England and the United States, but finally dropped on account of France's objections. "The conference might have gone beyond its boundaries, gone beyond the Hughes proposal", he said, "it might have done a thing that would have had an angelic effect on the world, had not France refused to agree to scrap her submarines...
...ever since De Foe invented Mrs. Beal, but the possibilities are apparently endless. The latest wrinkle comes with the announcement that Dr. Prince, director of the American Institute for Scientific Research, has gone into the wilds of Nova Scotia to track down a ghost which, evidently considering itself an outlaw, refuses to behave according to our preconceived notions of such things. And with him the good doctor has taken an "elaborate equipment of bells, cameras, flashlights, wires and white tracking powder". Shades of Friar Bacon and the Brazen Head...
...Furlong showed many pictures and told many stories of famous horses and buckaroos. There was Sundown Jackson, a full-blooded Indian, who at the age of fifty won the world's rough riding championship by sticking to a fierce "outlaw" horse, "raking" him and "fanning" him at every buck, and finally riding him "out", after he had been scraped against several fences, carried through others, and carried round, and round the arena. Then there was a cowboy, the best rider in the West, who because he was a Pendleton boy had to "ride out" four of the worst horses...
Would Exclude Outlaw Nations...