Word: scoundrels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Placerita boom had knocked the price of crude oil from $2.16 to $1.53 a barrel in Los Angeles, onetime Con-Man Yant and many another were getting rich. Yant was also insisting, to whoever would listen, that the oil find "vindicated" him. "Some people think I'm a scoundrel and some think I'm a wonderful guy-depending on whether they made or didn't make money out here," he said. "But do you know what? I don't give a damn. I'm gonna eat for the rest of my life...
...well-known subscribers until his death in 1882 (duly noted in the Gazette), but sedate family men also ate up the weekly's authoritative sport news and lurid stories of "horrid murders, outrageous robberies . . . vulgar seductions," under such titillating or shocking headlines as SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY or ROAST MAN (on a hotel fire). Promotion-wise Publisher Fox sponsored John L. Sullivan's bare-knuckled heavyweight bouts of the '80s, also gave championship belts and medals to rat catchers, oyster openers, bartenders and barbers...
...reflected that I do not fight for money, but for the love of my mother, which God has given us as the dearest thing in our lives? Just think that there can be no family without a mother . . . What reason can you give for defining me as a bloodthirsty scoundrel if I kill you only because I feel a duty toward my mother...
...setting of the Reichstag fire which, by then, everyone suspected Hermann Göring had set himself. Dimitrov, acting as his own attorney, alone in a hostile courtroom and a hostile country, fought Göring with courage. "I am not here to be questioned by you, you scoundrel!" cried Government Witness Göring at one point...
...spoilsman's practices): "An ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar ... a paid liar ... a natural-born liar ... a liar by profession, a liar for a living ... a liar in the daytime and a liar in the nighttime . . . this 'revolving,' constitutional, unmitigated, infamous liar [and] scoundrel . . ." (And so on, for 30 minutes, while the Senator put off going to the bathroom. When he finally got there, fainting, he needed a doctor...