Word: miscreant
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...little refurbishing of his own political glamor. The welcome that had greeted him in Indiana had not been warm; well known was the fact that the only pictures of Republican bigwigs which do not hang in State G.O.P. Headquarters are Wendell Willkie's and those of two miscreant ex-Governors...
Each Fort Clark soldier going on furlough is handed three or four "iron crosses." If he hears another soldier spilling secrets over a beer, he hands the miscreant a cross and walks away. "The theory being," said Lieut. Colonel C. B. Wales, the post executive officer, "if he walks up to him and tells him to shut up, the fellow might take a swing at the fellow who tells him to pipe down. With the cross, by the time he turns it over and reads the printing the lad who handed it to him will be out of the play...
...Prince Leopold was permitted to enlist in the Belgian Army as a private, and before the War was over had fought in the trenches under fire. His redoubtable father, when a treacherous chauffeur attempted to kidnap King Albert to the German lines, drew his royal pistol and executed the miscreant...
First U. S. installation of invisible glass was made last September at Marcus & Co., Manhattan jewelers. To startled passersby, it seemed that rich jewels and rare diamonds were theirs for the taking. Last week the illusion became something of a reality. Some miscreant, gazing at a jewelry-display behind the invisible pane, returned with hammer & chisel, chopped a hole in invisibility, walked off with three diamond rings worth $36,000. Police soon caught the culprit, recovered two of the three rings. Other invisible glass windows have been installed at the Chrysler Building showroom, Lord & Taylor's, Brooks Bros...
...plot, she has to become a boy is never clear; it is something about getting over to England with her father, Henry Scarlett (Edmund Gwenn). who wants to start life anew as a lace-smuggler. But once Miss Hepburn has her trousers on, and she and her inept, ingenuous miscreant of a parent have met Gary Grant, a cockney adventurer with smuggled diamonds in his bootheels. Sylvia Scarlett becomes good entertainment...