Word: rascality
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Drugs & Dreams. Like Candide, Ebenezer has a tutor-one Henry Burlingame, an unreconstructed rascal who appears throughout the book in a variety of disguises, extricating Ebenezer from the folly of his own innocence and "playing the world like a harpsichord." Disguised as Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore, Burlingame appoints Ebenezer Poet and Laureate of the Province of Maryland, commissions him to compose an epic poem to be called the Marylandiad...
They (with their New Zealand neighbors) bloodily proved their loyalty at Gallipoli. But their suspicion of authority was frequently uninhibited: in 1896, John Norton, editor of the Sydney Truth, toasted Queen Victoria's good health and long life, "if only to keep her rascal of a turf-swindling, cardsharping, wife-debauching, boozing, rowdy of a son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, off the throne...
...Down on his North Carolina farm. Poet Carl Sandburg turned 82, allowed that he is hard at work on some stories, more poetry and a second volume of his autobiography. At his home in the English village of Fordingbridge, famed Sculptor-Painter Augustus John, looking slightly like a Dickensian rascal, contentedly chomped a cigar on his 82nd birthday, had great expectations of celebrating many more...
...your pocket with a glance of his eye, and see the truth hidden in the heart of men." Made up with a white beard in a wretchedly unsuccessful attempt to look like G.B.S., "Mr. Evans' Captain," as A. E. Watts acutely notices in the Traveler, "is a cute old rascal who encourages some people in thinking he is whoopsy...
...rising, came away feeling more sympathy toward the Japanese than the Chinese ("What I responded to, above all, was the charm and hospitality of the Japanese"). When Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Matthews enthusiastically supported the Italians, later wrote: "If you start from the premise that a lot of rascals are having a fight, it is not unnatural to want to see the victory of the rascal you like, and I liked the Italians during that scrimmage more than I did the British or the Abyssinians...