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...town after sun-baked town crowds gathered, listened with hot-eyed intentness, and cheered The Man. Even planters in the rich Delta country who had always opposed him would vote for him this time. They thought him a knave but they knew he would filibuster to death any Congressional threat to "white man's supremacy" such as FEPC (the Fair Employment Practice Committee). Nothing short of a miracle would keep Bilbo from renomination, election, six more noisy years in the nation's capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Prince of the Peckerwoods | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Queen: But what about the Knave of Hearts? What are you talking about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGORE | 7/12/1945 | See Source »

...This mouthy, pretentious, calculating little climber . . . this degraded knave . . . this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and the rest of the besotted judicial jackals . . . illiterate imbeciles . . . lick-spittle timeservers and chore-boys . . . aromatically crooked as a skunk's hind leg. . . . The corruption of these abject poltroons is merely one example of the corruption which infects our entire judicial system . . . these esurient, self-seeking herding jerks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Knight Out | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...good lad or knave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

...White Lady, with both their squires, Made the beast with double back; And while the great St. Austin preached, So air grew gold with angels' wings, A beggar scratched because he itched; I perish to amend these things, And while in blazing shirt I stand, Priest jostles knave in the dark street, Better to see my burning hand Fall off, and sputter at my feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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