Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan. Onetime Chief of the U. S. Secret Service, Editor Flynn promised to go "far back into the recesses of his own life for thrills and action; those early days in New York when he himself set his feet on the downtown pavements and met the shock of the lawless." All this and more for ten cents per week. In his ransacking, Editor Flynn had accomplished the seemingly impossible task of discovering "a wholly new writer whose prolific brain can evolve and depict fresh, sparkling detective situations"-a man comparable, in Editor Flynn's mind, to Poe, Gaboriau, Wilkie...
...Popolo d'ltalia again called upon the Fascisti to keep the peace and even rebuked them: "But we also must address a stern word to those who wish to continue the lawless days of Fascista punitive expeditions. They are led astray by their romantic souls, while the 'Legalists' are obviously tired of being Fascisti. "Criticisms made just for the pleasure of criticising are work for fools. Fascismo which does not create instead of talking is not Fascismo, just as we cannot consider as Fascisti some of the men whom recent political events have brought into the limelight...
...issue is no longer Wet or Dry, but Law or Lawlessness, and the basis of all the Contest and my effort is to bring home to the lawless drinker that he is aiding in violating the law, and as such is, in the words of President Harding, "a menace to the Republic itself...
...first time, contains little that is new. Its chief merit is the apt summary of Mr. Delcevare King's views. "The willingness with which obedience responds to enforcement is the acid test of true democracy," says Mr. Bisbee, in the course of his arguments to prove that the lawless should be abhorred as a "Scofflaw...
...crown one's mortification, our friends the English look us over and volunteer the information that Americans are a lawless lot. Lawless, forsooth Americans are the most law-ridden, law-encumbered people on the earth. With frenzied politicians catering first to the prejudices of one group having the natural breadth and average intelligence of a CroMagnon man and again to the hysteria of some other group with somewhat the same qualifications, a maze of laws has been constructed which is impossible to respect if it is understood and still more impossible to obey if it is not understood. To make...