Word: scoundrelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall, pale, ill-shaped scoundrel, with scrawny neck and spindly legs. His body was very hairy, and on that score, in his foppishness, he was very sensitive. Whoever mentioned a goat in his presence he butchered incontinently. His face was naturally ugly. Nonetheless he practiced grimaces before mirrors to achieve an awful, imperious scowl...
...degrees at the University of Paris. One midnight, when the priest had gone to bed, the student crept out the door, made his way to the Pomme de Pin. There he swilled many a mugful. With him were 3 young picklock and a less specialized, more versatile scoundrel. After that day's dawn, Villon's spare hours were habitually ill-spent. At the age of 24 he killed a man in a mysterious brawl. He devised elaborate tricks for the theft of rich provender and wines (after his death the noun Villonerie was common parlance for clever ruses...
Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...
...large number of readers is its lucid, clean-cut style certainly easier reading than the classically ponderous works of the older school Gibbons and Mommsen for example. Here no foot-notes are to be found, no weighing of questionable points. The author asserts dogmatically that Caesar is a scoundrel, he cites his facts, such as they are, for so thinking, and dismisses all contrary evidence as not to be taken seriously. Mr. Thaddeus, even more than most of his colleagues, is possessed of an eye for the dramatic, and his style is rendered most vigorous by the frequent...
...bless my soul, sir, what did the scoundrel say to me? He said: 'Me no care what you say, Blitishman. Chinaman get back plane plenty quick or whippy Blitish army. How you like that? Chinaman wanty only protect his "interests," as you say in China...