Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold immediately after the bank holiday ended. Dean Wallace Brett Donham of the Business School criticized his act as having made the School subject to possible public criticism, objected to his criticisms of Administration policies. Hence Dr. Dewing's resignation. Since Dr. Dewing was guilty of no lawless hoarding, some alumni of the Business School were eager to raise the issue of academic freedom on behalf of their able ex-teacher...
...news about themselves. It was lordly Charles Alexander who, many years ago. prompted a secretary to announce: "The gentleman from the Transcript, and four reporters." Last winter Mr. Alexander yielded his duties to his assistant. Anne L. Lawless, known to her colleagues as "Orchid Annie." Manhattan's social writing dean is an elderly gentleman with a walrus mustache-Frank Leslie Baker of the Times. His department is supposed to admit to print all creeds providing they can claim an ancestor who lived in the U. S. before the Civil War. More colorful than their dean are Maury Henry Riddle...
...parlor pinks" are worthless to the cause. Workers must be made class-conscious, must be given new and inspiring leaders for the "revolution." Organized labor offers no such leaders because unions have gone in for racketeering. And: "The origin of racketeering is obviously in the Capitalistic system. Capitalism, essentially lawless and brutal, is inherently a racket but in America it is more blatantly...
...noisy," "audacious," "crafty," "lusty," "flamboyant," "hot-tempered." Other words, complimentary or vituperative, might occur to commentators biased one way or the other. For instance the Scripps-Howard Express (now the Rocky Mountain News) six years ago chose these brands for Publisher Bonfils and his Post: "shame," "disgrace," "bandit," "brigand." "lawless," "bunco," "scaly monstrosity," "mountebank," "... a blackmailing, blackguarding, nauseaus (sic) sheet which stinks to high heaven and which is the shame of newspapermen the world over." But neither friend nor foe could call Publisher Bonfils "sensitive." Journalistic rough-&-tumble was his particular meat. He was an able name-caller himself...
...lavender-scented memorial, but a crude, almost reportorial narrative which lets the background take care of itself. A New York Tempest is a tale not of Manhattan's 400 (so designated circa 1889) but of its 200,000 small-town citizens, its volunteer fire brigade, its lawless Five Points where "leather-hats" (police) never dared venture, its daring real-estate ventures into the open farming country of East 52nd Street. Author Komroff lugs in few historical buried treasures to deck his dime museum. One of them: that the original Tombs prison was so called "because its plan & architecture were...