Word: scoundrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...30th. Very sore at my heart this morning for some scoundrel did ring me at five saying: "Good morning, Sir. Early Rising Bureau calling. Hope you did sleep well. Good morning, Sir!" And this would continue every quarter hour until chimes went six. Whereupon, sleep from me, I did complete a hasty toilet and thence to review some notings in economics. But soon my eyes did turn to two little sparrows on the window-sill, frequent visitors, who did fight most unlady-like over a crust of bread. And I thought to myself: "Stupid creatures. Know ye not economics: Divide...
...seven who have the ear of the world, and of these I am one." But when he let his adored Egyptian wife wean away their son to Hellenic heathenishness, when he compromised with his religion for the sake of Roman rewards, he would think: "Your Doctor Joseph is a scoundrel...
...scoundrel, Dan Drew was finally cornered in 1870, by Gould and Fisk who caused an unexpected rise in Erie shares. Drew's fall thereafter was rapid. In 1876 he was bankrupt, his liabilities exceeding $1,000,000. Old, ignorant and despised, Daniel Drew spent his last years dependent on his son. But he had one consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near...
...These are the people who during the night heroically smear window panes, who placard every German buying from a Jewish store as a traitor to the nation, who declare every Freemason a scoundrel and who, in the justified battle against political pastors and chaplains, are now no longer able to distinguish between religion and the misuse of the pulpit...
...Clairvoyant (Gaumont-British), remotely suggested by an Ernst Lothar novel about a man who discovered he had the gift of detailed and exact prophecy, makes eerie entertainment out of the supernatural. Like The Scoundrel which needed two outright miracles for a happy ending, The Clairvoyant uses the modest method of understatement...