Word: dastard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people to watch him catch Bud Gearhart taking a bribe. When he got the check, Bud Gearhart returned it to Mrs. Achilles honestly and promptly. Then he learned of Elliott's trap for him. Last week he defended himself before a full house, flayed Elliott for a damnable dastard. One by one, Democratic colleagues of Alfred Elliott left their seats near him. Had he pressed for a vote, Bud Gearhart could doubtless have caused Democrat Elliott to be the first Representative formally censured (called to the well for a wigging by the Speaker) since Tom Blanton of Texas...
Another account: Billy Patterson was a beloved Manhattan barkeep of the 1880s, who was felled one night as he left the Star and Garter's side door, by an unknown dastard with a blackjack...
...show how Mammon rules supreme, and how even the highly respectable Protestant ministers are his priests, but at the same time he insists upon virtue triumphant in the grand, unblushing style, and pits two heroes, a stout old man and a simple, good-natured youth, against an unconscionable dastard...
Even that notorious dastard and Spanish Political Grafter Juan March, popularly supposed to get his way in any part of Spain with 1,000 peseta notes, bolted like a rabbit for France until things should quiet down. A few weeks ago brazen Juan March was offering publicly to highest bidders the Governorship of a Spanish province and all its seats in the Cortes, which he claimed to control. Last week Dastard March and the blameless Duquesa de Fernán Núñez were about equally scared. The Duchess stripped off her great rope of pearls, left it with...
...then, after the hero and the heroine have been chasing about the hospital for an hour or so, to no observable purpose, they calmly explain the whole thing to the inspector. A very harmless-looking interne for whom we had formed quite a liking, turns out to be the dastard, proving conclusively that you just can't trust anybody...