Word: rascall
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...Bible. Dragonwyck turns out to be a huge Gothic mansion near Albany. The relative turns out to be none other than haughty Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), whom any respectable Connecticut female should have spotted at once as not only a patroon but an untrustworthy, undemocratic rascal. Nicholas wears broadcloth and satin, dolefully plays a harpsichord and barks at his fat, stupid wife, treats his tenant-farmers like serfs...
...Editor Harry J. Owens of Chicago's Lakeside Press, Reynard emerges again, a lively and unscrupulous opportunist, still happy to live by his wits in picturesque unrespectability. "A thief, a traitor and an assassin"-in the words of his archenemy, Isengrim the Wolf-Reynard remains a likable rascal...
...know how it is," Reynard confided to Grimbart. "One cannot always keep himself as holy as if he lived in a monastery. The fault is not always with me. Take, for example, that confounded Hare. The rascal was as fat as butter. I loved that Hare but he would go scampering around under my nose, and the time came when affection was no longer a match for appetite...
...went down to see him not long ago, and took lunch with him. I think he is a pretty good executive, but a mighty poor talker. . . . He thinks he can convince the American people that I am a rascal. Well, I have always thought I could outcuss him, but I was too much of a gentleman to try. . . . And that, Mr. President, is enough for Mr. Ickes...
...York district attorney's office had no difficulty in locating Alexander Douglas Hume. He was not the man they wanted. He was a major in the Canadian Army. The other man had used his credentials, lived for four years under his name. Who was the rascal...