Word: scoundrels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington Post, Columnist Tom Donnelly reported coming across The Watergate Cookbook, written, he said, by people "deep in the soup" and featuring recipes for "purée of scoundrel, hush-money puppies and tongue à la Martha." Donnelly was only kidding; there is no such cookbook - not yet. But Howard Mercer, an inventor, and Joe Sugarman, an advertising executive, have created a slick card game called " Watergate Scandal: a game of cover-up and deception for the whole family." The pious instructions read: "To win: nobody in the Watergate Scandal wins. There are just losers. Once the cards are dealt...
Pinocchio's nose grew longer with each fib. Howard's merely twitches in private glee at each deception. Up to this point, Douglass Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, The Good Life) has created an amusing if implausible scoundrel and a book that makes suitable summer reading on those winter flights to Miami or points south. The problem with Howard's Bag is how to teach an old gimmick new tricks. With preposterous ease, Howard's truth-loving new secretary catches on to his secret and converts him to her own uncomfortable creed...
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel...
...better than anybody else" (Kahn's version of "who're you to decide what's right?"). After some mumbling along these lines, he capped his preamble with the following gem, which I q?ute nearly verbatim: "Samuel Johnson once said that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. I'd like to change that to 'Morality is the last refuge of a scoundrel...
Married. George Sanders, 64, the suavest of Hollywood villains (Death of a Scoundrel); and Magda Gabor, fiftyish, sometime actress and sister of Zsa Zsa, who divorced Sanders 16 years ago; he for the fourth time, she for the fifth: in a civil ceremony in Indio, Calif. Said Mama Jolie Gabor: "He just wanted to get back in the family. He missed me. I always liked George, but when a son-in-law comes back, I really like...