Word: rascally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Ruin and Rascality. High point of Mme. Giovanni's romantic island-hopping came when she hopped to North America. When the Giovannis got to San Francisco, the gold rush was on. The hundred tons of sweet potatoes, onions and apples that the Giovannis carried for sale-a total investment of $13,000-were almost worth their weight in gold. A speculator offered M. Giovanni almost half a million dollars for the cargo. He held out for more, could not get it unloaded. He finally had to take $2,500 for his half-rotten produce. The Giovannis were ruined...
Washington ordered him to bring back Pancho Villa, who had dared to cross the U.S. border on a raid. Pershing tracked the rascal Villa down. But Washington changed its mind. Washington told Pershing to let the rascal go and Pershing obeyed, tightlipped...
...opium addiction. In the world of hot jazz, marijuana's relatively benign effects are attested by long experience. Lushes often die young from cirrhosis of the liver or apoplexy, often spend their final days in delirium tremens. But vipers frequently live on to enjoy old age. In You Rascal You, a viper addresses an imaginary lush : "I'll be standing on the corner high when they bring your body...
...three months and administered by six tattooers," Constantine had 388 designs on his body, 52 on his abdomen and buttocks alone. In addition to two crowned sphinxes, two serpents, two swans and one horned owl, he had genuine Oriental writing between his fingers which branded him as "the greatest rascal and thief in the world." But he was not much more elaborately illustrated than England's onetime army officer, Zebra Man Omi (see cut), who sports a 150-hour job by London's tattooist George Burchett...