Word: scapegoats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...library. At 20, without benefit of university, he was sent into the world to make his living. Willoughby's first and only job was as private secretary to bumbling Lord Stumber. Willoughby liked the job, adored Lady Stumber. When his devotion became too obstreperous she made him the scapegoat to cover the tracks of her real lover. Dismissed in disgrace and nearly down & out. Willoughby encountered his father for the first time, thought him a delightful old rip. Lord Ollebeare gave him some good advice, but shamelessly swindled him out of most of his remaining cash. Willoughby...
...class, with ranking. West Point hands out its diplomas in that order. As Cadet Richardson of Gibson Island, Md., trim, erect, redhaired, marched forward his classmates jumped up, whooped, hallooed, tossed their caps in the air, heartily thwacked his back as he returned. He was, for the day, the scapegoat on whom all their sins were piled. They knew, too, that "Goat" Richardson had hung on for his commission iong after a lesser man would have given up. He entered the Academy in July 1928, was dropped a year later for deficiency in French. By August he was ready...
...brought him back. There was certainly no triumphal return, with Samuel Insull dragging behind a chariot, nor was there an angry crowd at the station or the jail. The general notion is that Mr. Insull is a poor, infirm old fugitive whom the law is making into a scapegoat. Pity wells up all over the Windy City. Yet it was Chicago, not the law, which made the man poor by driving him away from his pile, which made him infirm by hounding him rather crudely in half a dozen European courts. The search for legal evidence of his guilt...
...Nazis were willing to go in the strange realm of generosity; it would have been hopelessly crude to ask for the conviction of these last three Bolsheviks, against whom only the most insignificant evidence was ever advanced. But they seem to have decided that at least one scapegoat must be retained. Van der Lubbe is not now of much use to the Brownshirts, for even they admit that he could have had no connection with the German Communist Party except as a dupe, and the Dutchman in his startling but sane moments confessed to having fired the Reichstag quite unaided...
Died, Garvin Denby, 56, retired motor truck tycoon, brother of the late Teapot Dome Scapegoat Edwin Denby, son of onetime U. S. Minister to China Charles Denby; after an appendectomy; in Amityville...