Word: rascal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seldom is anyone killed in a mystery play whom the audience would care to have live. When Banker Kenmore of Monkey is shot his demise not only removes one more objectionable character from the world of fiction, but considerably enlivens a play. For Banker Kenmore was a vicious old rascal who sent his wife to an asylum, tried to blight his daughter's romance, kept a mistress. His death brings to the stage an extremely agreeable detective named "Monkey" Henderson, an eccentric police officer whose physique and peculiar actions have earned him his sobriquet on the force. Performed by Richard...
...least a dozen people have asked me if I had heard this story. I have and it is utterly untrue. Members of the Morrow family assure me that the child is a perfectly normal baby, running about and as bright as a button, a cunning little rascal who hears perfectly and says just about as many words as any baby of seventeen months may be expected to say. . . . The parents naturally have tried to keep the youngster out of the newspapers. . . . I have heard stories of nurses of the Lindbergh baby fleeing from cameras when the infant...
Judith, half-gypsy daughter to old "Rogue" Herries, 18th Century Cumberland squire, was a wild thing from her youth up, but she had character. Her wildness got her into many a scrape, led her to marry Georges Paris, an attractive, coldhearted, unscrupulous rascal. Character made her stick to him when he was unfaithful to her, even when the police were after him. Finally Georges went too far: he murdered a man; whereupon the man's old father murdered Georges. Judith became a governess for a while, then went back to the Herries family in Cumberland. She might have married again...
...Serving his first year on the Commission, he plotted the pool plan. When the McNamara brothers were accused of dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building in 1910, Commissioner Mahaffie was a struggling young lawyer with no clients. He caught the eye of Clarence Darrow, who has saved many a rascal's neck, was hired as Lawyer Darrow's assistant for $20 a day. Princeton made Struggler Mahaffie an instructor in jurisprudence. Woodrow Wilson made him solicitor to the Department of the Interior. Warren Gamaliel Harding made him attorney to the U. S. Railroad Administration. Then he became director...
...prisoners and live for a while in Germany. Then back they steal into Russia as heroes and Siedoi becomes more and more the main agent of the plot. He sees the wounding of the Man Cock, the handsome fiance of the Prince's daughter Sonia; he sees the rascally Peter robbing the dead and wounded. At home, as the War goes worse and worse for Russia, he sees and feels the pinch of starvation begin, and the happy band of dogs at the dump heap grow quarrelsome until they are all, save Siedoi and mad Tsygan...