Word: rapscallion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proud, swashbuckling Brigadier General José Alvarez-since 1924 Chief of Staff to President Plutarco Elias Calles-is suspected of being a monstrous smuggler, a multifaced Judas, a thoroughgoing rapscallion...
...until last week, however, would even potent Mexicans have dared to cry "Rapscallion!" at steelyeyed, quick-triggered General José. Then, suddenly, President Plutarco Elias Calles, bull-necked and bushy-browed, took pen into heavy fist and dashed an angry signature onto a proclamation: "To my greatest surprise, and assuredly that of the entire country, it has been discovered that one of the highest officials of the Administration and a prominent member of the army, General José Alvarez, the Chief of my Headquarters Staff, who had enjoyed my friendship and confidence, has proved traitor to the most elementary principles...
...Soon Rapscallion Alvarez was specifically charged with furthering the smugglery of $250,000 worth of silk into Mexico. In rebuttal he declared under oath to a high police official: "I deny any knowledge of this affair. I have been made the dupe of others...
MacDonald Smith is one of the Smith Brothers. No bearded rapscallion he, seller of sugar-coated cough drops, but the most brilliant member of a famed golfing family, the Smiths: Alec, George, Jim, Willie,* MacDonald. Thirty, years ago, Alec, the eldest Smith, came to the U.S., was three times open runner-up, once champion, won 19 important championships between 1898 and 1914, had among his pupils Jerry Travers, Marion Hollins, Glenna Collett, Reggie Lewis. MacDonald, the youngest, was famed at 15, played extraordinary golf until, in 1914, he went to California, disappeared from competition. Recently, he returned. When playing...
Hero Eaton. "Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute," shouted the U. S. envoy in Paris; meanwhile, the U. S. made large yearly "presents" to a bedizened rapscallion with a glittering eye, that Admiral of the Barbary Corsairs, the Bey of Tunis. To Tunis went William Eaton, blond Midshipman from Connecticut. Said he to the Bey's brother: "I will put you on the throne." The U. S. Navy Department connived. Eaton mustered an army of sheiks and camels, began a staggering crusade along the coast to Derne. He ran out of provisions, plodded on. His army deserted...