Word: punish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Harvey Parnell of Arkansas, scandalized at the revelations, promised to send investigators to the Ozarks. Said he: "If those hill barons enforce peonage, there are federal statutes to punish them...
...fiancee (Dorothea Chard), who is thus far the season's most piquant and delectable brunette. The blonde so beguiles Cortez that his Castilian nobility prompts him to propose. Then she admits that she has only been scheming to make him set the others free. He is too proud to punish her, so the pair are forced to separate until the third act when he arrives in Hollywood and finds her, scorned by the cinema critics, in a more congenial mood. Mr. Tellegen is emotionally expert but, like Messrs. Faversham and Atwill, he is working with material which is hardly adult...
Said the judge: "I have no desire to punish him for the faults of the escaped...
While no action will be taken to punish holiday cuts, it was, nevertheless, made clear that such cuts will be noted and will be counted against the offender in case he slips from good standing at any subsequent time...
...free as other legal commodities ... for exportation." "...Our citizens would be corrupted [if export liquor were outlawed] the traffic would be diffused. . . . The Canadian law would be violated and the duty would be laid on the Government of Canada to maintain a greatly augmented preventive force and punish the violation of ... a law which, after all, would only be enacted to assist in the enforcement of the law of a foreign country...