Word: scoundrelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that as it may, Sandoval and Christian had a quarrel about it. Christian aimed one at his jaw, Sandoval fell off the balcony and obligingly killed himself. He was drunk at the time, he was a scoundrel anyway, so it doubtless did not matter much...
...which concludes at the end of Part I with the defeat of Josephine. She is unable, in a world wholly full of rottenness and decay, to find her own feet; and Ulrika achieves her most brilliant success in marrying her off against her will to a clever and unscrupulous scoundrel who uses Josephine's millions to achieve a great position in a sham world...
...better and a more successful minister. To be a worthy minister, a man must be fine all the way through, whether at home or in the church or in travel. A lawyer can be deeply immoral, and yet be an eminent jurist; a surgeon can be a scoundrel, and yet be very successful with the lancet. But a minister is in everybody's eyes, and must therefore be pure in every respect. If he falls once, his career is gone. And this realization that success lies in your char- acter is one of the greatest joys of a minister...
...very difficult indeed to project across the footlights, so widely differing characters as the three developed in this one. The man of God, as seen by Orgon and Madame Pernelle, the insinuating rascal ready to seduce the wife of his closest friend and greatest benefactor; and the barefaced scoundrel of the last act were all successfully portrayed...
...Scum, scoundrel, brat, riff-raff!" called in a loud voice...