Word: scalawag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brussels as at Paris many a Communist thinks it sport to profane the Sacred Flame at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Sometimes the scalawag does it alone. But more typical is a profanation party which starts in some low cafe. Primed with as much beer as possible, the Communists set out for the Tomb in small groups...
...Scalawag's Cement...
Dramatic was the arrest of the scalawag building contractor who was believed, last week, to be more responsible than the suicided architect for the tragedy. When policemen dragged the contractor forth, more dead than alive, they had little trouble in extracting a confession. Apparently he had got behind his building schedule, had endeavored to speed up construction by pouring in cement before...
Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...
...curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious but bitterly satiric story of a scalawag physician who buys a country practice and makes it pay huge profits on the principle that, if people think they are healthy, it is merely because they don't know what ails them...