Word: knave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause, or for the other man, with alcoholized brain, who can't keep sober no matter how he tries. . . . Do you want this to be a land of the free and a home of the brave, or a land of the spree and the home of the knave...
...protest be noted. Peeping TOMS, TOMboys, Blind TOMS, TOM-tits, TOMcats, TOMcods, TOM turkeys, Long TOMS, the TOM of the tom-toms as words, should be axed. Why should a noble name be subject to veiled insult and subtle abuse? Sir, in the game of Gleek the knave of trumps is called TOM! An oyster's liver is sneeringly called a TOMalley! Why not Peter for the Peepers, Terry for the little girls who break windows and thumb their noses, Bert for the blind musicians of Dixie, Ted for the titmice, Timothy for the cats, Tobias for the Turkeys...
...increasing prospect of any man's nomination distorts his image in the public eye. In the case of Candidate Smith, his enemies see him more and more as a subtle knave of Rum and Romanism wearing the stripes of Tammany. His friends, in turn, are prone to exalt him as a Galahad of the masses, dight in spotless, and stripeless, armor. Actually, of course, he is simply a 54-year-old up-from-the-bottom man whose profession has been politics, whose acquired technique is state-government, whose ambition is what he calls "the highest office in the world...
Hearst Documents. The special committee investigating the documents with which Publisher William Randolph Hearst tried to show a bribery plot between Mexico and U. S. Senators (TIME, Dec. 19 et seq.), approached the conclusion that Publisher Hearst was a knave or a dolt or both. Handwriting experts last week pronounced the documents, for which Publisher Hearst paid $20,000, to be inept forgeries. The evidence pointed toward the Hearst agent, Miguel Avila, as one of the forgers, though this was not proved. Publisher Hearst protested his own innocence, agreed he had been bamboozled but again insisted a bribery plot...
...Vagabonds" are especially good so good, in fact, that the parsimonious reviewer parted with 75 cents for a phonograph record of the romance and adventure of the Middle Ages. And so swarshbuckling did he become that he drove the unappreciative janitor from his rooms with a snarl of "Dog, knave, back to your kennil" two hours after the play was over...