Word: scoundrel
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...London's Musical World as "ranting hyperbole and excruciating cacophony." Tchaikovsky was assured by the Boston Evening Transcript that his new Fifth Symphony was "pandemonium, delerium tremens, raving, and above all, noise worse confounded." And Tchaikovsky himself was not above recording a terse opinion about Brahms: "That scoundrel . . . What a giftless bastard...
...Johnson, living in a sparser age, used "scoundrel" in the singular...
...desperately to head off an end to the bipartisanship in foreign affairs which has lasted through World War II and six years of Labor government. Abruptly, the news from Sandringham House snuffed out the whole debate. One Laborite muttered: "It's a wonderful get-out for the old scoundrel [Churchill]." The debate will be resumed, but the moment and the mood will be different...
Granger then dupes strait-laced Artist Pier (Teresa) Angeli into making the first copy. Sanders plays along with the scheme while wisely acting on the theory that Granger plans to sell the real painting himself. Ultimately, after each double-cross has been doubled and redoubled, Scoundrel Granger is regenerated by the love of a good woman-the kind of feat that angelic Actress Angeli may be forever destined by Hollywood to perform. Ironically, Scripter-Director Richard Brooks is the author of a current novel (The Producer) in which a moviemaker grapples with a front-office demand for an ending that...
...picture fails to drum up any real sense of menace. Even in his most villainous moments, Evans seems a smoothly agreeable chap, and Actress Barrymore, bravely enduring her ordeal, looks as if she could get up any time she wanted to and make mincemeat of every scoundrel in the house...