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...served for a brief term as Harvard's first President, treasurer, secretary, dean, bursar, professor, tutor, and steward. This amazing yersatility, however, extended even beyond the scholastic realin: thief, bigamist, forger, and con-man, Eaton was not only a scholar of note but a knave of high distinction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SILHOUETTES | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

English history records that a bitter civil war known as the Wars of the Roses fought between the House of York and the House of Lancaster really arose from a similar remark made by a member of the House of Lancaster. The scurrilous knave was compelled to eat his words, and to the time of his death he was never allowed to taste real Yorkshire pudding. This was considered as a form of medieval torture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...CASE OF THE CRUMPLED KNAVE-Anthony Boucher-Simon & Schuster ($2). Young Fergus O'Breen, with the aid of Colonel Theodore Rand, U. S. A. (Ret.), nails the crafty killer of a wealthy California chemist-inventor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...addition of these "aces," there are three "face cards" in each suit, representing the ace's assistants. In each suit there are also one activity card, two method cards and three tool cards. For example, in the Banker's suit, the professor is the knave, outranked by lawyer and the politician. The Banker's activity is control, and his methods are secrecy and bluff. Mr. Morey says it is a game of social significance. Profits go to the Fellowship of Man Foundation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Card Game of "Significance" Gets H.S.U. Benediction | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

...fair trial. Jurors had frankly admitted prejudice, and the record showed appalling contradictions. But when Altgeld said so in an 18,000-word pardon he was damned as a murderer, a communist, a demagogue, a foreigner, an anarchist, a thief, a liar, a madman, a knave, a fool, a bomb-thrower, a Nero and a coward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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