Word: rascal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are plenty of flaws in the construction and direction of Goin' Home-enough, perhaps, to prevent its being the success that its vigor and perception deserve. It seems unfortunate, though it is a minor point, that a black rascal should be required to use so frail an expletive as "he can kiss my foot." Richard Hale, in blackface, does a sympathetic though slightly sing-song interpretation of Israel Dubois...
Near Baltimore, lived a lazy, black rascal called Matt Fisher. Last week, when ennui made him yawn and moan, he decided to put an unused tie across the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad to derail the Philadelphia-Norfolk express train. Whistling for his dog, Matt Fisher strolled towards the railroad...
Arthur Stone as a thimble-witted rascal of a brother...
...name is Jimmie Walker," replied the rascal, unaware, doubtless, that this name belongs to Manhattan's clever, handsome & well-dressed mayor. By no means amused at such an impertinent coincidence, the immigration official ordered Chance Stow and Jimmie Walker to hurry back to Barbados, whence they had come...
There correspondents prodded him with questions about his early life until he cackled: "I have been a little bit a rogue elephant-as I have written, something of a rascal elephant...