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Word: miscreants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: State Visit | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Glass Week | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 13, 1936 | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...CASE OF COLONEL MARCHAND- E. C. R. Lorac-Macanlay ($2). The Colonel, a "womanizer." is dead after tea with a redhead. Pearls, a bastard and a decomposed cat hang the miscreant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Churchill's Churchill | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

...terror and apprehend all miscreant canicides, detectives and S. P. C. A. agents were being sent out last week early at morning and late at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Poisoned Promenade | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

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