Word: black-sheep
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...young Stapley turns out to be no blackguard after all. He is really a black-sheep nobleman, willing to mend his ways for love of Sally. He tells Laughton triumphantly that the scheme has failed and "there's nothing you can do about it." Patiently, as to a child, hitting each word with malevolent emphasis, Laughton drawls: "How wrong you are." As long as a piece of fiendishness remains to be done, and one that demands lip-quivering, eye-rolling relish, never underestimate the power of Actor Laughton...
Death Reported. Harilal Gandhi, sixtyish, fun-loving, black-sheep eldest of the Mahatma's four sons;* in Bombay. Disowned in 1921, Harilal was converted to Mohammedanism in 1936, took the name Abdulla, offered to give up liquor if his father would give up Hinduism. Within six months Harilal was deconverted, remained faithful to liquor the rest of his life...
Anarchist ; bankrupt ; blackleg ; black-sheep ; brainstorm ; briber ; crook ; crooked ; damaged-goods chap ; destitute ; extreme poverty...
...females within sight and preaches ever and anon to his younger brother of the evils of his drinking ways. Mother and "Uncle John," the bishop, also do their best to impress on the same brother that he is sullying the family name and proving himself irretrievably the black-sheep of the family. "The Brat" is the only one in the household that sympathizes, and "Steve" falls truly in love with her honest, cheerful, little, untaught human being. But she has fallen under the idolizing spell of the author-brother and thinks she cares for him. Only when "Steve," hopeless, leaves...