Word: scofflaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increased crop of British correspondents is trying to depart from the cliche reporting of the past, which conjured up a fantasy land of red Indians, vast, untamed distances, beady-eyed Wall Streeters, scofflaw Chicago gunmen, political beasts and, more recently, nutburgers, healthatoriums and two-story doghouses. They also bring promise that the British reader will get a broader-based view of serious U.S. news than he has been able to get from the sometimes capable but always highly subjective accounts of the few old hands, e.g., the Manchester Guardian's Alistair Cooke. Some of the newcomers have begun...
...Having Writ, Moves On. In Hollywood, after cops bagged scofflaw Sidney Herman for jaywalking, discovered that he had 22 other traffic citations against his name, Herman explained his dodge for evading prosecution: "I move every few weeks...
...Confessin ... In Manhattan, Scofflaw Johnny Raffa was arrested, socked with a 30-day sentence and given his choice of a $2,900 fine or another 116 days in the cooler for ignoring 58 traffic tickets, after he showed up for his first professional singing engagement at the annual ball of the Traffic Squad Benevolent Association...
...Scofflaw Search. Last November, however, it appeared that New York had finally caught up with Big Joe. Picked up by police at a race track, Joe, along with two kinsmen, George Lee and George Adams, was haled into court as a scofflaw, a term which New York City's Chief Magistrate John M. Murtagh uses to describe the many New Yorkers who habitually dispose of traffic tickets by tearing them up.* Magistrate Murtagh, who has long been waging bitter war on scofflawry, imposed upon Lee (118 unpaid tickets) a $5,900 fine or 590 days in jail and Adams...
...word "scofflaw" was invented in 1924 after Delcevare King, an ardent prohibitionist of Quincy, Mass, offered a prize of $200 for the best word to apply to "the lawless drinker to stab awake his conscience." Submitted by both Henry Irving Shaw of Shawsheen Village, Mass, and Miss Kate L. Butler of Dorchester, Mass, "scofflaw" was adjudged the best of more than 25,000 entries...