Word: blackguards
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...People are angry. It's so blatant. It's notlike a hidden thing," said Pierre R. Voss, a Blackguard who complained of harassment by Behenna...
...date, five minority guards have saidsupervisors harassed them because of their raceand ethnicity: Black guard Pierre R. Voss, Blackguard Steven Thompson, Hispanic former guardRolando Diaz, Black former guard Rodney Johnsonand a Russian guard who requested anonymity.Asian-American guard Jacquelynn Leonard said asupervisor sexually harassed...
...would be bad for someone to say, "They didthis to me because I was Puerto Rican or Chineseor Jewish or Black,' when they were wrong in thefirst place," said Douglas A. Allen III, a Blackguard posted in Dunster House...
...acquires a cow, but someone turns it loose. "February 4. The Emperor is in a very bad humor, and full of the cow incident. At dinner, the Emperor asks (his coachman) Archambault, 'Did you let the cow get away? If it is lost, you will pay for it, you blackguard!'. . . His Majesty, in a very bad humor, retires at 10:30, muttering, 'Moscow! Half a million men!' " After dinner a few days later, the Emperor remarks, "I should enjoy myself very much in the company of people of my own fortune...
...First Amendment guarantee of freedom was written on behalf of a press that was far more noisy, brawling and partisan than the much maligned journalism of today. As a California judge noted in his opinion in a 1979 libel case, George Washington was called a murderer, Thomas Jefferson a blackguard and a knave, Henry Clay a pimp, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant drunkards. Abraham Lincoln was termed a half-witted usurper, a baboon, a gorilla and a ghoul. Yet none of the nation's early leaders even attempted to sue, although some may have shared Benjamin Franklin's professed desire...