Word: rascals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They (with their New Zealand neighbors) bloodily proved their loyalty at Gallipoli. But their suspicion of authority was frequently uninhibited: in 1896, John Norton, editor of the Sydney Truth, toasted Queen Victoria's good health and long life, "if only to keep her rascal of a turf-swindling, cardsharping, wife-debauching, boozing, rowdy of a son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, off the throne...
...Down on his North Carolina farm. Poet Carl Sandburg turned 82, allowed that he is hard at work on some stories, more poetry and a second volume of his autobiography. At his home in the English village of Fordingbridge, famed Sculptor-Painter Augustus John, looking slightly like a Dickensian rascal, contentedly chomped a cigar on his 82nd birthday, had great expectations of celebrating many more...