Word: scoundrel
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...demands the judge. "Well," says his friend, "there was Banker Jones." "He's usurious," snaps the magistrate. "He cheats little ol' ladies out of their life savings. Who else?" The acquaintance lists all the other witnesses, and with growing rage the judge denounces each as a scoundrel or worse. Finally the friend confesses that he has been kidding, that the committee in fact has rejected the bill. "Now why," sighs the judge, "did you go and make me say those things about the finest group of men I know...
...every horse in the field had a chance-except maybe Big Pete. Big Pete was a sprinter, a good one to be sure, but at the 1¾-mile distance of the Preakness, he figured to wind up, as horsemen say, "absolutely"-meaning somewhere up the track. But The Scoundrel, Quadrangle and Roman Brother had won five races and $188,000 this year among them. And then there was Hill Rise, beaten by a neck in the Kentucky Derby, gaining with every stride. Should've won, the experts said, and a steal, even...
...early stages of the Derby with Hill Rise kept off the pace and Dandy K. almost out of sight. In the stretch run, the leaders will fold, and Hill Rise will fly past them. Dandy K. should finish a fast-closing second, followed by Northern Dancer, Quadrangle, The Scoundrel, Wil Rad, Roman Brother, and Mr. Brick
...mile Derby distance-but he has still won ten out of 13 races, and his new rider, Bill Hartack, is an old hand at winning the Kentucky Derby (three times in the last seven years). Panamanian Jockey Manuel Ycaza, who won the mount on The Scoundrel when Shoe maker begged off, was not about to concede either. And before the week was out, Eastern horsemen were singing the praises of Paul Mellon's Quadrangle, who ran off with the $75,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct...
...Page, thereafter indulged his bent for vinegarish sentiment in maudlin novels and Zionist pamphleteering, but plied a true trade as one of Hollywood's most highly paid ($5,000 a week, even in the 1930s) and accomplished script doctors, turning out dozens of literate originals, such as The Scoundrel (also with MacArthur) and Crime Without Passion, adaptations ranging from Wuthering Heights to A Farewell to Arms; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...