Word: scoundrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Japan was tightening its grip on Manchuria last week, a baldish, blue- whiskered dissolute Russian scoundrel-brigand was plotting to tear another strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...
...years ago the CRIMSON had a picture of me which I liked a great deal but after it had appeared once some scoundrel from Chinatown came in and claimed it as a portrait of his uncle. The CRIMSON rather than doubt my parentage and ancestry, gave him the picture...
...Said he: "Legion conventions are planned ahead of time as drunken orgies in defiance of the laws the men as soldiers had taken an oath of allegiance to support. . . . The ex-soldier who will [disobey the law], and practically all of them did in Detroit, is a perjured scoundrel who ought not to represent the decency of the flag under which he fought. . . . There was a marked absence of the sober, well-behaved typical American. The other crowd is in power. That is why such numbers of staggering drunks disgraced the uniform and yelled for beer."* Dr. Wilson later said...
...Peterson and nodded. Suddenly the room was filled with smoke, flame and sound. Dent Williams had whipped out another gun, concealed in the waistband of his trousers, and had done what any other full-blooded young white man in Jefferson County would have done-shot to kill "the black scoundrel." Three slugs took effect, two in the chest, one in the arm. Willie Peterson, dying, was taken away to a hospital where 100 National Guardsmen were subsequently posted to stop further trouble. Dent Williams was arrested, charged with attempting murder, released under $1,000 bail...
...Publisher Fox's estate was valued at more than $1,500,000.) But the Gazette's fortunes have dwindled, as has its circulation-now said to be about 50,000. The Police Gazette today has nothing even faintly suggestive of such headlines as "SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY . . ." "HUMAN HASH" (topping the story of a railroad wreck); "ROAST MAN" (above a hotel fire story). Indeed, it now resorts to its own back files for material. But the advertisements have retained their old aroma: marked cards, "trick" dice, "vigor" tablets for men. Typical classified advertisement...