Word: dishonestly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...amusing sketch of an English bookie who, after years of making a quietly shady living by betting on horses he never saw, comes by accident into the ownership of a real race horse, and blown with pride of possession, deliberately does himself out of a considerable bit of dishonest money for the pleasure of seeing his horse win. A Hedonist etches the collapse of a would-be laughing satyr whose avoirdupois is too much for his intentions. A Feud deals with unnecessary hatred and the wreckage it makes...
...practically the same " or " just as good " sent; goods not sent in parcels of the correct size; no attention paid to wrapping them up in wrappers that are proof against the elements. The article advises U. S. firms to exercise the greatest care in choosing their representatives, as " one dishonest agent does much harm not only to his firm but to his country-more than enough to offset the work of 20 honest agents." It also points out that in the minds of the gullible " having no previous knowledge of Americans-the conclusion is, not that that particular salesman...
...formation of an American Labor Party. Proposals to join the Farmer-Labor Party and the Workers' Party were rejected. The tatter's overtures were called a move to strengthen Communism, based on " dishonest motives and secret aims...
...Senator Edmunds. "I quote from page 192 of Charles Francis Adams' autobiography: "... He was distinctly dishonest-a senatorial bribe-taker.' ... I have tried to decide who this Senator was and I am of the opinion it was Edmunds of Vermont...
...Secretary, however, takes cognizance of this difference. Said he: " Including public debt payments in the classification of military expenditures . . . is in the same dishonest category as charging up to the army the civilian work which it is obliged to perform by acts of Congress. One may even question the propriety of including the cost of operations of the Pension Bureau and the Veterans' Bureau in the list of military expenditures. These prodigious costs are to a large extent the direct result of our unpreparedness...