Word: punish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best way to bring about the failure of these disorders is to have the citizens reprove them, and those who are charged with keeping the public order should severely punish the disorderly elements...
Mayor Lake's strange behavior, charged him with tyrannical rule and misappropriation of funds. The issue came to an ugly head on Aug. 5, 1927, when Mayor Lake was re-elected by a majority of 22 votes. At midnight, a mob of drunken hoodlums started out to punish Editor Dean for maligning People's Choice Lake. Editor Dean stood in the doorway of his home with an automatic shotgun, informed the mob that he would shoot dead the first man who stepped on his porch. "You scoundrels, get out of here and go to hell," said Editor Dean...
...official manifesto General Fukuda declared: "The Chinese show an open stand of belligerency. Therefore, to punish the guilty and uphold the dignity of the Japanese Empire I am obliged to take such drastic measures as I deem necessary...
...stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light. . . . And I will punish the world for their evil and the wicked for their iniquity...
...harsh sentence of the court might be construed as giving grounds for suspicion that the judges of the case sought to punish him not for the moral qualities of this, one of the first fruit from his pen, but for his revolutionary proclivities in general. This youngster in the field of literature was indeed beginning to regard himself as a martyr, so unjust did he feel the decision to be, and so the reversal of the original verdict is excellent policy on the part of the courts, which have long been accused of a violent ultra-conservatism; they are avoiding...