Word: honest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diamonds. Tormented are many U. S. customsmen and all legitimate jewelers by the smuggling of small, easily hidden precious stones. Honest diamond dealers, undersold by the smuggled article, have banded together into the American Jewelers Protective Association of which Meyer Rothschild of Manhattan is president. This organization, touchy and suspicious, cooperates with U. S. agents to prevent diamond smuggling, receives tips on smugglers, collects U. S. rewards for incentive to smuggle...
...five months since March 4, Secretary Hyde has shown a patient persistence in carrying out his job. He is hardworking earnest, honest. What he lacks in brilliance he makes up in frankness. If he has brought no remarkable innovations to the vast departmental organization under him, he has at least kept it on an efficient basis, has played no politics with its appointments...
...sturdy friends at Moscow; and her tall, vigorous King Haakon VII is the only living brother-in-law of Britain's frail, gallant George V. Naturally the new British Labor Government thought first of Neighbor Norway when it decided to make conciliatory overtures to Russia through some honest friendly little state...
...That's not honest. Why didn't you approach me with the microphone in plain sight...
...will not, because you have not been fair about this matter. You have not been honest. I don't approve of your actions...