Word: rascally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twice seen to step out and fire at the Sergt. who was very active in forming his men; the third time he struck the Sergt. when he (the Sergt.) turned and rushed at the Indian until he got to pretty close quarters, he then fired and killed the rascal. When their chief fell the Indians fell back and slackened their fire considerably-in the meantime Capt. Rains had been shot down. The Sergt. seeing the effect produced on the enemy charged them boldly then rapidly retreated and thus succeeded in getting clear with Capt. Rains and other wounded...
...first time wrong is done and the precedent established, it may be done by a good man with the best of intentions; but the precedent is established, and in future years that precedent will be used by the demagogue and the rascal to perform his tricks and to fool the public. . . . [Permitting a President unlimited tenure] would mean-not perhaps in my lifetime, or it may be not in the lifetime of anyone here-but it would mean ultimately the establishment in this country of a monarchy upon the ruins of our present republican form of government...
...Star boat Bolt; Don Peterson's Comet Blue Peter (only boat in the Race Week fleet to take five straight races). Star class's Undertaker-Yachtsman Frank Campbell, too busy to compete in the entire week's races, came to life over the weekend: his Rascal breezed home first in the final day's racing, giving Campbell his tenth straight victory in the weekly Long Island Sound Y.R.A. championship series...
...night shelters for homeless unfortunates. For them it was a pity when Crime Accountant Joseph Cook nabbed him on a wretchedly small irregularity of ?7, found his piteous appeals had netted the spanking sum of about ?150,000 in his 17 letter-writing years. Last week the hoary old rascal went to jail...
...Edmonds property) that Dan'l Harrow wore in Rome Haul. He also has indefatigable industry, a bounding business precocity, and a talent, rather uncommon in country boys of 18, for slipping bribes where they will do the most good. "Do you remember my saying you were an unscrupulous rascal. Ames?" says realistic Mr. Chevalier, accepting the letter which Ames has purloined from a sea captain's safe...