Word: rascal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sometimes, however, an editor is so irritated by the constant piracy of his news by some competitor, that he deliberately lays a trap for the rascal in the form of a false report. Here Melville Stone's* foiling of the old Chicago Post and Mail 50 years ago is the classic model. Mr. Stone, then part owner and editor of the Chicago Daily News, printed a false despatch about some fictitiously sad distress in Serbia and ran in some supposedly Serbian words, "Er us siht la Etsll iws nel lum cmeht," as meaning, "The municipality cannot aid." The Post...
Packing a jury ; pseudo scientist ; rascal ; rogue ; scoundrel ; slacker ; suicide fiend ; syphilis ; thief ; tool of profiteers ; unfit to be trusted with money ; and villain...
...City Council was about to approve the measure, one Councilor Jack Salmon, "a breezy fish salesman," arose and denounced Character Barkis as "a silly old pup . . . a drunken rascal with a red nose." Forthwith one Alderman Goode vouched for Barkis' honesty and did not admit his habitual drunkenness; and the deliberations of the Council became audible in the next room...
...similar fate in England. In the Yarmouth town council, it was proposed to name certain highways, Copperfield Avenue, Steerforth Avenue. Peggoty Road, and Barkis Road. One of the more stalwart of the councillors, Jack Salmon, fish salesman by trade, condemned Barkis as a "silly old pup" and a "drunken rascal with a red nose". He spared Steerforth his denunciation only because he did not know the gentleman's reputation...
Into the bosom of the Gaar family comes one Christian Coty de Sandoval, soft-spoken rascal from New Orleans, burbling about some huge amount of money owed by the de parted Banker Almy to his (Sandoval's) colleagues, erstwhile rebels in the captured city of New Orleans. They had, it would appear, hatched a plot to ship over to France certain financial inducements to some of the feminine harpies "with made-up titles," who surround Louis Napoleon, to persuade that calloused monarch to bestir himself in the cause of the Confederacy. They had collected some $250,000, much...