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...offices of the Department, the extended list of its illegal practices compiled by such lawyers as Zachariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, and Dean Pound of the Law School, cannot fail to arouse the suspicion that "where there is smoke there is fire". Specifically, the Department is charged with wanton destruction of property; arrest without warrant; illegal imprisonment without trial; cruelty, torture, and "third-degree" methods--all employed against aliens and persons of foreign birth who are not cognizant of their rights under the American law. In particular, as regards the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the Department stands accused of gaining a conviction...
Just as the royal order was never rescinded, so has the ancient command of erstwhile days become lodged in the realm of perpetual watchful waking. Those who cherish a generous hope that succeeding generations may be spared the matutinal proclamation--abandon such wanton waste of brain energy! For as long as royal decrees survive, and until the initiative spirit of the outside world has penetrated the venerable customs of antiquity, the inane din will continue to destroy precious Senior slumber...
France, on the other hand, desires the economic prostration of her late foe. She fears the military and economic potentiality of a prosperous Germany and is bound not to see it recover more quickly than she herself is able to do. She has a huge bill for wanton destruction, for insult and outrage, that she wants to have settled to the last centime. It matters not whether Germany can pay. If not, so much the worse for Germany. Consequently France has heretofore refused to give up one iota of her demands...
...reported to have cried, "and the German assassins hired by a British King. They were the first Sinn Feiners; this hall is the hall of Sinn Fein; this country is the first Sinn Fein country, and the Stars and Stripes is the first Sinn Fein flag." Responding to this wanton perversion of historical fact a mob that packed Faneuil Hall to the doors alternately wept, cheered and pounded its approval...
...wayward woman's wanton...