Word: rascalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spawned monsters to crawl into public notice, under the title of Scots Poets, that the very term, Scots Poetry, borders on the burlesque." When his excise pay "was cut, Burns went to bed with a fever, and on July 12, 1796, begged ?10 of a cousin: "A rascal of a Haberdasher to whom I owe a considerable bill . . . has commenced a process against me . . . O, James! . . . Save me from the horrors of a jail!" Within a fortnight, and before the ten-pound check or the haberdasher, death came, at 37, to Robert Burns...
...Pass over all your cash and no one will get hurt." The teller was indeed stuck-up--insufferably so. She hardly glanced at the poor wretch, but replied, "Well, you must have that O.K.ed by an officer." Then she left her cage, walked to a guard and gave the rascal in charge. After searching him, finding neither weapons nor money, the guards threw him out of the bank. "We thought he was a bum," they explained. The next back he tried also ignored the would be bandit untill he was leaving, when police finally collared...
...week's end Godfrey was in a more mellow mood. He said he had intended to say a lot of nice things about Julius ("a charming rascal") on the swan-song show, but had only about eleven seconds to do it. But, said Godfrey firmly, he was "more proud of this boy" than of any of the youngsters he had made into stars. On that sweet note, the storm blew over, leaving La Rosa to cash in on a million dollars' worth of publicity and kind Father Godfrey to mull an ancient maxim: a doting parent generally deserves...
Daffodils in England. At the siege of Acre, John surprises Guy in the act of loosing a carrier pigeon, and realizes that all the Frenchman's cynicism was not just words: the rascal is dealing with the enemy. Guy takes flight, and the Lady Melisande, alas, goes after him. Robert and John and King Richard all have plenty of troubles after that; Robert never does live to return home...
...returns to Old Home Town, Texas. Finding that some dam Yankee carpetbagger has cut him out of his job, girl, homestead, and even his favorite place in the saloon, the Forgotten Hero clenches his teeth and waits. He is still waiting and quietly suffering when the girl-snatching Nawthorn rascal injures either his mother (in pictures apologizing for the James boys) or anyone's honor (in all other films of this genre). Then all hell breaks loose with proud victors vanquished, widows revenged, and Yankee misrule giving way to the Texas Rangers...