Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...inconceivable that a man who has been found guilty, as the Congressman says, "of the most fiendish cruelties" should be allowed to go free, when soldiers who committed what in comparison to the offenses of "Hard-Boiled Smith" were "trivial infractions of the military code" are still serving, time at Leavenworth. According to newspaper reports, Smith has broken parole. If this is true, surely this transgressor against the spirit of fair play should be again apprehended and placed where the perpetrator of such deeds as he committed belongs...
...fact. Mr. Sabatini, in his latest volume of "The Historical Nights' Entertainment" has recognized one phase of this axiom. In his preface he says, "I set out again with the same ambitious aim of adhering scrupulously in every instance to actual recorded facts," and he notes a few trivial deviations from the facts of the incidents he depicts. But while he has been meticulous in his plots, he has deviated so far from the truth in his manner of presentation that the book fails utterly...