Word: scoundrelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which Michael persuades her to accept. Striving toward greater respectability than the law allows them, the two are married, thus laying themselves open to prosecution for bigamy. Of course the wayward husband eventually returns. In an attempt to blackmail Michael, who is by this time a prosperous novelist, the scoundrel's insolence leads to a scuffle and he falls dead of a heart attack. Still seeking the highest moral good, Michael and Mary decide to conceal the truth of the incident from the courts for their son's sake. A decade later, when Michael explains the whole history...
...Samuel Johnson (1709-84) became an issue in the trial. Prosecutor Pomerene cited the fact that the great lexicographer had called patriotism the last refuge of a scoundrel. Quick to see his chance Defender Hogan roared to the jury that this Englishman had vilified American revolutionary leaders, had advised a yardarm hanging for George Washington...
...almost unbelievable that you would have been guilty of propagating the fraudulent misrepresentations of fact, and refusing to mention the abandonment of such various and sundry accusations even by those making them. For instance, you published to the world my picture, as though I had undertaken to hire some scoundrel to kill a member of the State Legislature; and when, after hearing no testimony except that of the witnesses against me- even the anti-Long leaders themselves did not allow a vote to be taken on such a charge-you said nothing about it. Further, you pictured up a great...
...campaign was rough, personal. Hague called Burkitt "a contemptible scoundrel and carpet-bagger." The question of whether Mrs. Burkitt worked or not became a political issue. The Fusionist candidates-a nurseryman, a plumbing contractor, a motor salesman, an attorney, a roofing contractor-were obscured by the battle of Burkitt v. Hague...
...know the story! ... I want to denounce it as a miserable lie. I wish I could see the scoundrel who started it. . I wish people would mind their own affairs and leave mine alone. ... Of course I do not pay the regular rates for a great big hotel apartment. What I do pay is nobody's damned business! I can afford to pay what they charge...