Word: scoundrel
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...with as much justification as one of the celebrities, one of those who improve?" Carr makes her question superfluously rhetorical. Like Inheritance (TIME, Sept. 12), Carr is a novel of Yorkshire, its background the textile industry of the West Riding.* Hero Carr's father was an absconding scoundrel, but that did not prevent Millman Ainsley from paying for young Carr's education, taking him into the mill and making him junior partner in Carr, Carr & Ainsley. In return, Carr was supposed to be a credit to the firm and to marry Ainsley's nice but not very...
...Heard Louisiana's Long flay a Senate investigator into his State rule as a liar, scoundrel, thief and forger...
...taped, uninformed superiors, he did such jobs as edit a handbook of information about the Turkish Army, containing such unsoldierly comments as "General Abd el Mahmoud commanding the ?th Division is half-Albanian by birth and a consumptive; an able officer and a gunnery expert; but a vicious scoundrel, and will accept bribes." Chafing at the restrictions and routine of army life in Cairo. Lawrence cast an envious eye at the Arab revolt just getting under way across the Red Sea. He made a general nuisance of himself till he got ten days' leave. He headed straight for Feisal...
...Moslem fanatic in Darfur, he had turned Moslem under pressure! Letting England down, what? Worst of all, the fellow had written a poem about it, had the impudence to publish it. The ensuing scandal ran his book up into a bestseller. Of course most decent men sent the scoundrel to Coventry. But Dinny stuck by him, even in the face of family disapproval. Luckily the fellow had enough grace to leave her, go back to the East where these things do not matter so much. It was a near thing for Dinny, but the implication is that she was well...
...suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit to a far-away trader, he runs into two dubious Australians, gets a lift on their lugger to another island. Captain Nichols, skipper of the boat, is a shifty but unashamed scoundrel. Blake is a nice-looking youngster with a secret on his mind. When a gale blows them to Kanda, a beautiful and peaceful island, none of them is in a hurry to leave. Blake strikes up a great friendship with Erik, a simple-hearted Dane who is secretly engaged...