Word: punished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...candidates. The ferocious denunciation of every Democrat as a friend of rebels, the continued waving of the bloody shirt, the cartoons of Thomas H. Nast, the editorials of Petroleum V. Nasby all indicate as clearly as anything could that the reconstruction policy was actuated more by a desire to punish the South than by a desire to benefit the negro. Very naturally such hatred could not last. To the credit of the North everybody has been thoroughly ashamed of that attitude ever since, and for that reason it would be impossible, even if it were desired, to bring any active...
...your issue of Nov. 19 you translate "Gott strafe England," as "God Damn England." A far more accurate translation would have been: "God punish England," the meaning back of the word "strafe" being that punishment is merited. Had your version been intended the German would have been one of two expressions, "Gott verdammt sei England," or, "Gott verdamme England." There is quite a difference between invoking punishment and invoking damnation...
...Although every citizen is free to hold his own views as to the identity of the future King, my Government will take legal steps under the Constitution to punish those responsible for agitation, if the movement in behalf of Otto or any other candidate continues...
...away from her. Finally, she refused to let him have any more. Then Franz, whom she had wished dead, strangled her. Albert came to see her in the hospital where she lay dying. Theresa said to him: "He has only repaid what I did to him. They must not punish him too severely...
Chief Justice Taft replied that he had no jurisdiction to review the complaint. Attorney Serri, still undaunted, continued action with the slander suit, "as a test case ... to call the attention of the legal profession to the need of disciplinary power to punish judges for contempt of lawyers...