Word: scamps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although there are insufficient flyers in the U. S. to man the planes produced, and although this insufficiency has begun to thwart sales, the Department of Commerce has all along fought scamp training schools. Obvious reason: poorly trained pilots endanger life and property, in the air, on the ground. Last week, Assistant Secretary William Patterson MacCracken approved a set of regulations stiffening the requirements for Government licenses, which now stand as follows: For Private License. On the ground, 5 hrs. study of air commerce regulations, 10 hrs. of aviation engine study, 10 hrs. of airplane study (rigging, maintenance, repair...
Lazy skeptics and whining peg-legs, when they read this fluent and elaborate narrative, shook their heads in complete disparagement. "The lying scamp," they murmured, "a front porch he could climb." The London Times, however, believed Pegleg Winthrop, published his story and an editorial, "... a brave man to treat disablement in the War as a spur, not a curb...
Collins held good or not, Ben Bess's pardon could not be revoked. But whether he was an injured innocent or a scheming black scamp, jail promised to continue his lot. There was a warrant out for his arrest on another charge. He had, they said, attacked a fellow prisoner with a knife...
...Chicago Tribune gloated with a loud goodwill last week that it had caught the scamp who five months ago had used a Tribune want ad with dastardly intent and criminal result...
Among the episodes which are reproduced with loving care and no more dramatic consequence than is to be found in the Papers themselves, are: the affair at the Inn, where the mad scamp, Alfred Jingle, takes the Pickwickians for £120 as balm for releasing his hold upon the elderly spinster of their party; the hunting expedition to which the jelly-bellied Pickwick sallies forth in a wheelbarrow; the court scene in Guildhall where Sergeant Buzfuz (bellowing in the person of Bruce Winston) wins the Widow Bardell's suit for breach of promise against the harassed but philosophical hero...