Word: blackguarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mystery story, about the convict Magwitch and his life-long feud with the blackguard who stole his wife, is blurred by the fact that Magwitch never seems quite sure whether he is villain or hero. In addition to this, the characters have names like Pocket, Jaggers, Gargery and Pumblechook. In spite of all these eccentricities. Great Expectations is superb cinema entertainment. It should go a long way toward enlarging even further the prestige of Charles Dickens who has lately become the most fashionable author in Hollywood...
...picture of Rev. Dr. Fulton J. Sheen, printed because he had just been appointed Papal Chamberlain, was captioned: ". . . Has been insulted by the Sun which says the Catholic Church has canonized 'an ordinary scoundrel' and a 'consummate blackguard...
...Many of his subjects believe that the York princes are still alive, that they somehow escaped from Richard Ill's confinement. But they do not reappear on the English scene. A century later, a Tudor admirer, William Shakespeare, in his Richard III, fixes the murders on the York blackguard...
...Burton led the expedition). He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise, went to Salt Lake City in the reign of Brigham Young, made an engineering trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such an embarrassingly spectacular servant. Her Majesty's Government grudgingly gave him poor, unimportant consular posts?Fernando Po, Damascus, Trieste?afraid of what he would do. In his last...