Word: rascal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mumbled: "Now I don't know whether I'm John's son or not. But I wouldn't go through those court hearings again if I was positive." His public, doubting him shrewd enough to have concocted his case, waited to see what manner of rascal the District Attorney would show up as author of a plot...
...Gossoon, by George Shiels (new). A young rascal flies about the country on a motorcycle, drinks, bets on the dogs, chases after every petticoat he sees, is finally reformed by a shrewd colleen with more cunning than her elders...
...American Medical Association regards Candidate Brinkley as a dangerous rascal. Back in the days of headphones, rural radio listeners of Kansas and the entire Corn Belt listened attentively to the persuasive Brinkley voice over his station KFKB ("Kansas First, Kansas Best"). Although he has not been permitted to practice medicine in Kansas for the past two years, thousands have had their illnesses diagnosed over the air by Dr. Brinkley, who referred them to certain drug stores where his prescriptions were sold. He also conducted a rejuvenation clinic where he pretended to revive oldsters' potency by the injection of what...
...that's less suprastitious." Says Jinx: "Just say you won't find anyone as black as you and stop. . . ." The Conjure-Man Dies is also probably the first detective story in which the characters sing an appropriate song: "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal...
...rascal is Stephan Stephanovitch, absolute monarch of the minor Balkan kingdom of Illyria, as he sits in his shirtsleeves in the Royal Palace of Zeta playing chess with General Kosovo, his Prime Minister. Illyria is in a sad state of affairs. A foreign loan must be floated somehow, and without signing away the vast undeveloped oilfields at Tokar. Questions of the royal succession are also troubling Stephan. His eldest son Dushan had renounced his royal birthright to marry an American, and now is dead. Milan, the present Crown Prince, who shoots horses out of his way rather than walk around...