Word: scoundrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...23rd in a class of 33, he considered himself a military genius. At West Point too began his bitter feud with Joseph E. Johnston. Cause: a tavern keeper's daughter. Elected to the Presidency by accident (delegates preferred Toombs), he was bitterly assailed by his own colleagues. ("That scoundrel Jeff Davis," said Toombs.) A bad guesser, he made his worst guess when he tried to force English recognition by withholding cotton shipments. That notion cost the Confederacy a billion dollars, wrecked its finances...
Last week came a play of Pagan's own and with it the clue to how he wangled his cash. Pagan's To the End of Time proved to be a lashing attack on John L. Lewis. Called John Steele in the play and portrayed as a scoundrel, he dies in Act II, goes to Heaven only long enough to be lambasted, then is booted...
...ever been dreamed, guided by expert and experienced commanders, are more than a match for Marianne and John Bull. Italy is neutral because Germany alone is more than able to administer to the two thieves of Versailles the defeat of their histories. . . . You, Mr. Editor, are a low down scoundrel, as are all the Jews, you did for years arrogate the right to offend the honor of one of the most noble nation in the world, Italy, the nation which gave the civilization to the whole world; who authorize you to do it? Because you publish a magazine you think...
...patrioteer TIME means to describe the professional patriot, the kind of refuge-seeking scoundrel who waves a red-white-&-blue handkerchief when he should be wiping his own nose...
...diary opens, Lincoln "quietly grinned" when he was told of a plot to murder him. When told of the generals' ambition to set up a military dictatorship, Lincoln was reminded of Jim Jett's brother: "Jim used to say that his brother was the damndest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence he was also the damndest fool...