Word: rascall
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...sent board and chessmen spinning into the air. Calmly, Lincoln took the boy's hand, and turning at the door with a good-natured smile, said: "Well, Judge, I reckon we'll have to finish this game some other time." Said the judge later: "If that little rascal had been a boy of mine, he never would have applied his boots to another chessboard...
Died. Charles Edward ("Cow Cow") Davenport, 63, self-taught Negro composer of more than 100 songs (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You; Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here), onetime piano accompanist for the late Bessie Smith; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
...Even in the genuine realms of national security, the Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Commission have withheld from the U.S. public information already available to the Russians. For example, more than a year after the Northrop Snark and Bell Rascal guided missiles had been parked at public airports for all to see, the Pentagon was still trying to keep their photographs out of print...
Through Saigon's streets rolled a float depicting a swinish Emperor Bao Dai swilling cognac with one hand, clutching a nude blonde with the other, while an overbearing French rascal stuffed the royal pockets with gold. The question before the people in South Viet Nam's first free national election was in effect a choice between Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as their head of state or Bao Dai, their absentee playboy sovereign...
Actor Newton dares to play the lovable old rascal as no one since Wallace Beery would: that is to say, he blatheringly overplays him with the ear-flapping, eye-woggling, nose-swallowing abandon of a man who is trying, with both hands tied behind his back, to get a particularly persistent fly off his face. "Milk!" Newton splutters, staggering back, clutching wildly at his throat and shuddering like the plague. "I be pizened!" The way he walks, anybody would think he had at least twelve peg legs instead of one, and the way he talks, "Jim Oarkins" and "Trays-sher...