Word: loafered
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Irate mobs did not denounce Joseph Smith as loafer, drunkard, Satan's instrument, until he had refused to tell the hiding place of the golden plates. After they had dug up most of the Palmyra Hill of Cumorah without finding the gold, they drove him out of New York State. After the Mormon bank in Kirtland, Ohio failed during the panic of 1837, mobs in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois tarred & feathered Smith, lynched his followers. Non-Mormons envied the prosperous, fast-growing Mormon city of Nauvoo, feared a well-trained Mormon army of 5,000 men, and known political...
...chase, and there will be other steamrollers, too, grunting along under assumed names like "Termbill" and "Divisional" and "Thesis," and then one jokingly called "Final," which is never really final at all. Like streetcars, there will always be another one coming to make a jelly of the innocent loafer...
...want you to get me right from the start, and no misunderstandings. I'm no Captain Bligh. But I'm no harbour loafer either. I'm a man who's sailed the North Sea in 50 storms. . . . Who's looked death in the face many a time without hatting an eye. So you'll realise that I'm not sticking out my chest and bawling just because I've managed to get across from Grimsby to British Guiana in the Girl...
Worse was yet to come. As soon as the President's letter-to-preachers came to light, it was discovered that in composing it some loafer in the White House secretariat had, in four paragraphs out of six, plagiarized almost word-for-word a similar appeal sent out to Wisconsin pastors last March by enterprising Governor Philip Fox La Follette...
...with Mrs. Hughes and their chauffeur at Buffalo, N. Y. "I'm sorry, but I cannot give time for an interview," he explained courteously to reporters. "I cannot permit a picture to be taken, either." Thereupon, majestically unaware of a skulking cameraman (see cut') and a dockside loafer who chirped, "Hello, Judge," the handsome, white-whiskered Chief Justice boarded the Great Lakes Transit Corp.'s steamer Juniata, cruised to Duluth, entrained for the West...