Word: rascal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professor think that we were either zealous reformers, all two of us, or that we were refreshingly ignorant of the Facts. And he would know all along that we weren't at all. In Fact, we probably taught him much of the contents of those questions, the little rascal...
...Merriwell or the incredible Brown after they left New Haven and Cambridge? All collegiate heroes of fiction draw the public interest because they are supposed to throw the spotlight on what goes on, and how, behind the academic walls. It is the wise author who lets his dashing young rascal fade into obscurity with his A. B. under his arm and the aureole of glamor still about his head. One had as leave read about Tom Swift after his adventures are over and his magic flying machine stabled in the garage, as pursue the maturity of the plastic age settling...
...have on your front cover, made it necessary for all the world that believe in justice and freedom to go to war. Of course the article on p. 13 was news, and all right, but why cause Americans, or at least one, to remember any more vividly that arch-rascal and scoundrel "Wilhelm Der Zweite" who felt that he was almost if not equal with...
...this continuance of affairs in Poictesme, after the passing of that brave grey rascal, Dom Manuel, from his castle at Storisende, and during the adolescence of Coth's prying young son, Jurgen, is a faintly tiresome recital of disappointments, frustrations, pedantic sorceries and middle-aged bawdinesses among the nine remaining Knights of the Silver Stallion, who disband perforce and go to their destinies as their leader has gone...
...that day the most energetic berated his friend for letting him spend the little energy that life had left to him. One day last week Koman went out to feed the ducks. Rupor followed him querulously, complained that he wasted food, showed favoritism to the handsomer ducks. High words- rascal, duck-dodger, miser-followed. Rupor struck with a spade, Koman fell down dead. The policemen who came for Rupor found him asleep...