Word: scoundrelism
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...with her penitent pater and no less penitent though virtuous mater at her bedside, resolving to tell their next daughter what's what before it's too late. The fade-out is a sweetly murmured "Daddy... It seemed like such a beautiful road...but it was only..." The slimy scoundrel who debauched her is presumably out wreaking his lustful will on more sweet trusting girls. It's the woman who pays...
...moment, get a bloody clout in the face. Squirming and kicking, the boys die under the smothering hands. Sir James Tyrrell, a discontented gentleman in charge of the job, hastens to report to his employer, Richard Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the boys. Gloucester, a crafty, ruthless, sharp-featured scoundrel who drags a foot is already calling himself King Richard...
...rather, one stormy year of it, when as a boy of 12 he journeyed from the tip of Lower California up to San Francisco in the caravan of the Spanish Inspector-General. That was in 1810. He took the journey for his health, having just knifed a local scoundrel with an uncomfortably large number of brothers. It was a long, arduous, dangerous trip, but young Juan had the time of his life. He became immediately devoted to the Inspector-Gen-eral's wife, proud Dona Ysabel, and was given the job of guarding her only son. Dona Ysabel...
MURDER DAY BY DAY-Irvin S. Cobb -Bobbs-Merrill ($2). Murder of a scoundrel and his two servants on Long Island provokes this daily account of its investigation, which was previously serialized in newspapers...
...week,' or he might say seven days, but not 'A week.' By God. you are not the first of your breed to sneak in here, and you can't deceive me; I knew you at a glance. You're a Jesuit. Get out, you scoundrel, before I do you an injury. Report to those who sent you that I can detect a Jesuit at sight, however disguised." Once, suspecting a wife of slowly poisoning her husband but having no proof, Sutherland told her that her husband's food was not agreeing with...