Word: rascals
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There correspondents prodded him with questions about his early life until he cackled: "I have been a little bit a rogue elephant-as I have written, something of a rascal elephant...
...RUINS?Philip Gibbs? Doubleday Doran ($2.50). When an old mustached rascal startled a credulous world by asserting that he had discovered the North Pole, Philip Gibbs, then a sharp-witted newsmonger, investigated. The record of his discreet queries and of Dr. Frederick Albert Cook's vague ambiguous replies soon made him the hero and Dr. Cook a laughingstock. Since then the Doctor has been put behind the bars of Leavenworth, Kan. prison, while his suave interrogator has become a famed correspondent, a knight, a novelist, and now a short story writer...
...notably Kansas City, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Omaha, Boston, St. Louis, Richmond, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta. In England the railroads ran excursion trains to the London exhibition. Englishmen paid one shilling & sixpence (36c) to look at the models. They ordered 64,000 cars. In Manhattan a rascal took advantage of the local gullibility. He passed through the showroom throngs with an "order book" in his hand, promising delivery in three weeks upon a deposit of $25. When detectives approached him he ran away with many a $25 stuffed in his coat pockets. The week marked a milestone...
...four suits, each with four court cards instead of the usual three. These are the King, Queen, Knight, and Valet. The suit marks are Clubs, Coins, Cups, and Swords, and are held to be symbolic of the four orders of society, the church, the nobility the traders, and the rascal multitude...
...yelled, "you ought to be hanged! I'll kill you! Where is my ring? It cost $600! Tell me where it is, you villain!" Mr. Koch's plump cheeks puffed; his breath popped; he burst into tears. Police shouldered the angry matrons away and helped the rascal to a cell...