Word: dastards
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...Post Office, the Department of Justice and chemists of the Naval Laboratory were asked to trace out the dark roots of a dastard, sinister conspiracy. To marveling callers, Senator Heflin showed how, had he tucked the fiendish violin under his massive chin, he might have inhaled microbes. He then answered a question that had puzzled many people-why he is allowed to live...
...everyone feels almost certain, going to continue his series of express train demolishments by wrecking the night flyer. To the great dismay of the little group waiting around for something to happen, he does just this; then the president of the road, on the point of naming the dastard's name, is shot down by some mysterious hand...
...representative of Stone & Webster admitted that the subway was no place for "fragile" people, but he blushed when the other charge was brought. A witness reported overhearing a middle aged woman who was pressed against a young dastard say "You wouldn't dare insult me, sir, if Jack were only here," but he denied saying that a young woman had sued the Inter-urban for breach of promise. No doubt the result will be as usual, simply that good newspaper editors will attribute the degeneracy of the tunnel system to modern youth and the generally low plane of New York...
Every man be he Dr. Straton or Joe Forecast should, when he has made a statement, be willing to stand by it, and not wish to crawl out of it like a dastard. If Dr. Straton desires publicity, his is a good method of obtaining it. If, however, he wishes to see articles reporting his speeches written in a tone complimentary to him, let him think out what he's going to say before he says it, and not talk for a half hour extempore at the conclusion of his main address...
Joseph ("Fog Horn") Westwood (diminutive Laborite M. P., leaping up and pointing at Colonel Lane-Fox) : "The coward! The dirty, dastardly coward! My aged1 father has been locked out of his work at the mines, and this dastard says my father isn't going to defend my mother...