Word: rascally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afraid of you, you rascal!" screamed the Premier of Prussia...
...night table. Once she got up near to him outside the ballpark and fainted. In her diary she wrote: "Phils are losing. I bet it's none of Eddie's fault," and on the same page, "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you." Papa Steinhagen, a no-nonsense die-setter and father of another, less emotional daughter, got fed up with all the foolishness. Ruth's folks sent her to a psychiatrist but she went only once, and it didn't do any good. Indignant at Papa's ways...
...Charles MacArthur, 53, and Actress Helen Hayes, 48, and brother of Ingénue Mary Mac-Arthur, 19, was catching up with the rest of the family. He was given a bit part in a strawhat production of The Corn Is Green. His father's prediction: "The little rascal is ham enough so that if he had only one line he'd throw in three...
...slightly mangy wolf (Stewart Granger) full of bad intentions. Gilliat's sympathy for all the people caught in this grade B triangle gives it the look of pathos. He softens contempt for the villain by proving him to be as much an unhappy fool as he is a rascal. When the hero's sister writes a tattling letter, Gilliat balances the tattler's meanness with a compassionate picture of her miserable marriage. Besides endowing his work with warmth and humanity, Director Gilliat knows how to make it move; the hero's hunt through London...
...Adventures of Don Juan (Warner) is the latest episode in the Perils of Errol (Flynn). In this chapter, Errol is knee-deep in the intrigues of the Spanish court of Philip III and neck-deep in its lavish costumes. He is also once again a rascal with a 14-karat heart and a 1-karat mind. His intentions are high, true and gallant. His planning could at best be called faulty; it usually ends with Errol on the cold side of the dungeon walls and the villains holding the keys...