Word: dishonestly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...next few weeks some definite action must be taken by the Senate on the peace treaty. The question has, by this time, resolved itself into a matter of expediency. Argument over the method of its framing, over personal like or dislike of its framers, over their honest or dishonest intentions, all this is obsolete. We have a treaty before us. We all of us agree that it is not as perfect a one as we could have written ourselves. Nevertheless it is here, to be rejected, amended, or ratified...
...University such as Harvard, a new publication of evident literary merit cannot be brought to light without a most unfair attack being made upon it by certain narrow minded editors of the established literary organ. History teaches that when satire is used, decay has set in. Surely dishonest competition, anonymously conducted, discloses a moribund state of affairs. How can a small group of men who have failed in keeping alive Harvard's undergraduate literary traditions presume to sneer out of existence a publication of real literary promise? It is merely another attempt by the "vested interest" to stifle literary activity...
...just, then inevitable, or if not inevitable, then at least much the lesser of two great evils (and this ought to include every man who cannot honestly say that the outcome of the war in Europe is a matter of no importance or concern to him, because a dishonest neutrality is morally more reprehensible than war) in such men the desire to serve the nation devotedly and intelligently is very great. It is to the latter then, but not to those who harbor any sentimental illusions about the thing called war, that the following information is commended...
...borrowers" do not call themselves dishonest. Many of them are quite reputable young men, slightly lacking in brain, perhaps, but accredited with honesty for all that. All of them would be bitterly offended if named by an ugly and descriptive term. And yet their actions are neither more nor less than thievery. When a man takes a book from--the Library shelves under cover of his coat, or in his bag, he is robbing every other man who may wish to read that book...
...Putnam further declared that opinions must be expressed throughout the country, since otherwise the President and Congress could not know how the people, whose government they represent, felt. "The President has shown undue patience" in the recent war crises. Money has been distributed broadcast with dishonest intentions of blowing up government property, of destroying munition factories, in short, "a hot-bed of treacherous actions have been going on as ordered by enemies to the nation...