Word: blackguarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pegler. He withdrew the first (for $25,-ooo) in 1946 after he and Pegler had made a gentleman's agreement to stop calling each other names. Still pending is a second (for $250,000), filed last year after Pegler stopped being a gentleman and called Pearson a "lying blackguard...
...renewing its contract as Pearson's radio sponsor, newsmen from all over the nation jumped in. The big gun on McCarthy's side was Westbrook Pegler, who has long been in & out of libel suits with Pearson himself. Said Pegler of his longtime foe: "That lying blackguard is my man, just as Harold Ickes was in his time. Santa Claus brought him to me. Pearson is a liar and a rogue and I will belt him through the skylight as a service to my country and my honorable profession of journalism...
...love is a steady thread through this tapestry of change. It is for a confidence man, named Bonser, a loud and promiscuous swindler with a flair for spending money, a blackguard whose interest in Tabitha lies squarely in her pocketbook. He seduces Tabitha and fails to marry her, yet he appears again and again through her marriage and divorce to bounce her on his knee and ask for a pound or two. She gives him the money and more than that, for Bonser is Tabitha's personal revolt, and her only consistent pleasure...