Word: scoundrelism
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...canoe up a small Connecticut river to visit his godfather, he stops first to see the girl he had loved and broken off with four years before. For financial reasons, she is about to be married to a perfect scoundrel. Paul finds he still loves her, but is unable to do anything but make himself unpleasant. He next encounters the rather brummagem woman he thinks his mother whom he leaves frustrated, but with half given promises which nauseate him. And finally after seeing the squalor and sordidness of a mill town and the hypocritical enthusiasm of a Methodist Camp Meeting...
...Kreuger money for campaign purposes. He hotly denied this charge at first, then shamefacedly confessed and tendered his resignation to King Gustaf (TIME, Aug. 15). If the Premier of Sweden lied about Ivar Kreuger-so runs the small investors' argument-who knows whether a man with the Great Scoundrel's brains & money could not have "arranged" his suicide and cremation with the petty French and Swedish officials who certified the facts...
Large creditors centered some hopes last week on a writ served in Stockholm on Ernst Kreuger, the 80-year-old father of Scoundrel Ivar, and other directors of his collapsed holding company, Kreuger & Toll. The writ charges Father Kreuger & Directors with "gross negligence," accuses them of letting Scoundrel Ivar do with the company whatever he liked, seeks to collect from the Board of Directors damages equivalent to the losses of Kreuger & Toll. How great these losses are, accountants who have been ferreting & figuring ever since last spring were still unable to say last week...
Stockholm police arrested Brother Torsten Kreuger last month when the receivers for Kreuger & Toll sued him for more than $1,000,000 in cash and securities which he was alleged to have received from Scoundrel Ivar some six months before the crash. It was Brother Torsten who flew to Paris and secured custody of Brother Ivar's body without an autopsy being performed. At that time Brother Torsten had the diplomatic rank of a Swedish consul general, lived far more lavishly in Stockholm than Brother Ivar whom Swedes called "The Man Who Never Gambles...
...from ear to ear; he rocks with noiseless merriment as Ko-Ko tells of the deadly snickersnee; he recites the list of hand-tailored punishments aimiably through his teeth, till suddenly his blood-curdling laugh, like Mephistopheles, rips up and down the baritone scale. He is so like a scoundrel, and so like a benevolent bishop at a christening, that Gilbert could not but approve...