Word: rascal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still in charge, and I'm going to see they are buried right." While the dirt was shoveled in some members of the crowd chanted, "I'm Headin' for the Last Round Up," "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You," "Bye, Bye, Blackbirds." Finally Hernando went home to breakfast. Same day five other Negroes were executed- one at Tupelo, Miss, for murder; two at Raleigh, N. C. for murder; one for murder, one for rape, at Milledgeville...
David Harum (Fox) offers admirers of Will Rogers an opportunity to watch him whittling a fence-post, driving a sulky, singing ta-rah-rah-rah-boom-de-aye and swindling a clergyman. David Harum is a New England horse-trader and village banker. Part rascal, part philanthropist, he makes it his business to further a romance between his shy clerk (Kent Taylor) and his pretty protege (Evelyn Venable). He accomplishes his purpose by trading to her a horse named Cupid, suitable for sentimental buggy rides because he balks...
...down, and the principle of indeterminacy has taken its place. There is great difference of opinion at present as to whether this is a genuine discovery, or as to whether it is a merely temporary technical device." Einstein thinks "strict causality" will some day be reinstated; Eddington thinks that rascal is out for good. On the whole, says Sullivan, man should lift up his heart again, contemplate the universe with renewed hope. Science is no longer implacable and omniscient; it has become "selfconscious and comparatively humble. . . . The discovery that science no longer compels us to believe in our own essential...
...Joan Barry), a fuzzy British tourist with a regurgitative chuckle (Gordon Harker), a U. S. millionaire traveling with his secretary, a chief of police, a nervous spinster. The picture thief's accomplice renews an old romance with the cinemactress while the picture thief is murdering a timid little rascal for stealing a Van Dyck which, through a confusion of briefcases, finds its way into the compartment of the U. S. millionaire. The businessman is suspected of the murder, cleared about the time the train reaches Rome...
...romantically inclined he would have been quickly disillusioned; he soon found the slave's panegyrics on chivalry were exaggerated. But then he came to Tintagel, met lovely Isolde, cowardly King Mark's Irish bride. Isolde had no eyes for anyone but Tristan, a light-loving, thick-skinned rascal, Mark's hated nephew. That was all right with Palamede. His intentions toward her were almost unbelievably honorable. He never noticed that Brangain. Isolde's pretty cousin, was his for the taking. In the ensuing Christian intrigues heathen Palamede stood firm and pure. But finally he could stand...