Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dictionary of the future will contain the above entry, if the popular imagination is captured by the winning word in the $200 contest which has been conducted recently by Delcevare King '95 for an epithet of bitter opprobrium applicable to a lawless drinker. From among over 25,000 words submitted by 6234 people, the winning term was chosen, according to the announcement of the award made last night by the judges...
...alone for some time has brought stability, progressive reforms, and international recognition to a neighboring country where every second child seems born a revolutionist seems beyond question. The de la Huerta faction, as far as it knows its own purpose and reveals it, seems to aim at a lawless control by the military and privileged classes. While indiscriminate aid to a foreign power is admittedly unwise, aid to the Obregon government is judiciously extended. Criticism on openly pacifistic grounds is perhaps excusable, and as such could be pigeonholed out of the way of more important Congressional business...
Then upon the scenes of lawless disorder, thundered the voice of Benito Mussolini: "I consider the reform instituted by Signer Gentile, Minister of Education, one of the most important Fascist reforms approved by my Government...
...Lawless. A tale of gypsies-Continental gypsies who travel in equine caravans and join battle with their Tartar enemies in the final reel. There is much hard riding, nasty leering, passionate gypsy love and gaily colored gypsy skirtings. Its merit is far above that of the average cinema. It is simple, direct and moderately entertaining. The meretricious and the tawdry are conspicuously absent. But just where Dorothy Dalton, the heroine, acquired her fame is a knotty problem. She manages in The Law of the Lawless to let her leading man, Charles de Roche, pick the play up and carry...
...taken in time. Surgery and deep X-ray or radium treatment are so far the only proved remedies. Progress in the latter methods has recently been rapid. But the rub lies just in the fact that the malady is seldom discovered until it is too late when the lawless growth of the cancer cells has gotten a fatal hold on the healthy tissue...