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Word: rascally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler-baiter : Band Waggon's little Arthur Askey, cooking up ingenious schemes for pestering a certain Mr. Nasty. Sample: Plotting to train 5,000 parrots to fly over old Nasty's House at Birdsgarden, singing "We'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Swing and Mr. Nasty | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...world is stronger than the unscrupulousness of a notorious British liar. There is no doubt, Mr. Churchill, that you will be found guilty by any court of justice-now you are standing before the judgment chair of a world tribunal. The accused, Winston Churchill, now has the floor. . . . Stand, rascal, and answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: Revival: Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Died. Gaston Bullock Means, 59, notorious national rascal, onetime Secret Service operator and private detective; of a heart attack; in Springfield, Mo., where he had been taken from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Lump is no violent epithet. In meaning it ranges from rag or garbage to rascal, mucker or good-for-nothing. Many a good Nazi has privately called Herr Streicher far worse. But the corollary of Streicher's philosophy that "A Jew is always a Jew," is "A German is always a German, even if he lives at the North Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lump | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...fine day. Much oblige, Heavenly Father. The sun shines so pretty. The purtes thang. . . . Hush, son, you talkin like a fool. Hush now, son, old boy. . . . Pore old Capm man. Pore old hoppin and cussin rascal. Make bricks all summer. . . . And, Heavenly Father, who art up yonder, all we got now is bricks. Mom and Violet and Macon and Big Sister and me squattin in corners munchin a brick apiece. Not eem gravy or sweetenin either. . . . Hello, Tooter. How you? . . . Oh, kissin runs in our family. . . . Hello, Shackle. Hidy-do, good-lookin. How you? Oh, I'm all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bell's Shackle | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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