Word: scoundrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture of Rev. Dr. Fulton J. Sheen, printed because he had just been appointed Papal Chamberlain, was captioned: ". . . Has been insulted by the Sun which says the Catholic Church has canonized 'an ordinary scoundrel' and a 'consummate blackguard...
Ominous indeed was the scene at the famed Reichstag Fire Trial when No. 2 Nazi Goring lost his temper and roared at Defendant George Dimitroff: "You'll be sorry yet if I catch you when you get out of prison, you scoundrel!" (TIME, Nov. 13). By a long coincidence it was the dawn of the first anniversary of the Fire last week when Nazi jailers unlocked the underground vaults where still lay three defendants at that trial, all acquitted, all Bulgarians, all Communists: Dimitroff, Wassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff. (The fourth defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was convicted...
...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...