Word: outlawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little mechanical intricacy of plot but a strong thread binds it together?the thread of Fremont's inevitable and typically American struggle up from the status of a "neatherd"#151;his adventures in local politics?his love for Winifred Ashe and their runaway marriage?his friendship for the outlaw Bushyagers?Winifred's tragic death and the unhappy chance that left Fremont a widower, with two children to support and the debts of his somewhat rascally-father-in-law to shoulder?the great Bushyager murder trial and its subsequent lynching-bee and Fremont's facing of the mob that came...
...pressmen struck because of a long-standing grievance. It was, however, an outlaw strike in breach of contract. President Berry of the International Union dischartered the local, and made a new wage agreement on more liberal terms with the newspapers. The outlawed union's members were invited to resume work as members of the International Union, but, thoroughly angered, refused. One man was killed working for the New York Evening Journal (Hearst). Reporters who tried to attend the strikers' meetings were roughly expelled...
...womanhood. There also lived the foul Lizard, Villain Number One ?and Saint Jimmy, who was just Tiny Tim grown up and wild about doing good to everybody. There also came Hugh Edwards?man of mystery?fleeing from the shadow of a crime?and, of course, Sonora Jack, the outlaw, dropped in occasionally?and Natachee, a philosophic Indian, was always monologuing his way about the crags?in fact, now and then, the good old canon got so cluttered up with characters there wasn't room enough left to swing a mountain lion...
...considered; if from the purest and most moral motives it used an obscene word it comes under the law. The book is not to be judged as a whole but shall be condemned for a single passage out of its context. In one fell stroke this clause would outlaw the Bible, Shakespeare, the Greek and Roman classics, Swift, Chaucer, the whole of Restoration comedy, Milton, Fielding, Voltaire, Flaubert, Goethe, Balzac, the writings of the early Christian fathers, Martin Luther, the Encyclopedia Britannica and the dictionary...
...normal interest of the Irish populace in fighting was augmented by the " decree" of the outlaw Republicans forbidding the bout. Free State bayonets spiked the decree and a bomb explosion a stone's throw from the ring was the only interruption. Two children were wounded...