Word: dastard
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...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...
...ship's bell was salvaged to become the Commonwealth's greatest Naval trophy. It was Sydney's pride in particular, and in Sydney's War Museum it stayed until last April when Museum attendants, opening up for the day, discovered that some good-for-nothing dastard had stolen...
...with many a smirk picture postcards which suddenly appeared throughout the Kingdom. They showed a man with the head of King Carol holding on his lap a woman with the head of His Majesty's mistress, Mme Magda Lupescu. Purple in the face, a Court spokesman spluttered that "dastard enemies of His Majesty the King have concocted these slanderous photographs from models on whom heads have apparently been superimposed...
...waved them back once, then walked between them while the whole House cheered to his presiding seat. From under the Speaker's Table, Sergeant-at-Arms Admiral Sir Colin Keppel produced the mighty, gleaming Mace and laid it thereon. Right glad was Sir Colin, who failed to prevent a dastard Laborite from laying hands on the sacred Mace last year (TIME, July 28, 1930), that in the General Election this naughty varlet (Laborite John Beckett) lost his seat...
Previously, high-minded, pure-hearted Feng & Yen have fought Chang. But last week they seemed to have something to discuss with the dastard, extorter. mass-murderer and Champion Bad Chinaman. Marshal Chang's behavior in Japan has been exemplary except for having shot, from the window of his hotel, the ex-Emperor of China's cousin, suspected of having fiddled about in the Marshal's harem...