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David Niven, a thin, sprightly Englishman, plays Aaron Burr, and although he does not carry a label of the variety commonly employed by political cartoonists, he is easily recognizable as the scoundrel. Burgess Meredith, as "Father of the Constitution" and name-giver to a high school in Brooklyn, does the only reasonable...
...mentioned? Like the audience, Katy has never met .the mysterious relative whose name drives Taylor into queer fits of hysterical reticence. Unlike the audience, she is consumed with curiosity and foreboding about her missing inlaw. Amid some embarrassing melodrama, it begins to look as if Taylor is a scoundrel, maybe a murderer, and-worst fate of all-the short side of a romantic triangle...
Like all the women in her family, the heroine (Barbara Hale) has had long and bitter experience with gambling men. She wants to make an honest living by running a bookstore, but her hard-earned nickels & dimes are frittered away by Grandpa (Frank Morgan), a lovable old scoundrel who cannot resist a pony or a poker game. When Barbara falls in love, her young man, of course, turns out to be another confirmed gambler (Robert Young...
...Laborite backbencher commented on Churchill thus: "The old basket-he's a scoundrel of the deepest dye, but by God, he's put his finger on a few things in this debate." There was also a good deal of approval for Churchill's remarks in the British press. It was noteworthy that no hurrahs at all were forthcoming from the Zionists; their silence contradicted vociferous but unofficial demands that Britain "quit Palestine." They know that if Britain got out of Palestine the Arabs would be on Zion's neck...
...March 11 number of your magazine an item appears concerning the Liga Mexicana de Baseball (Mexican Baseball League), of which I am president, and concerning me in particular. . . . I am writing you to explain a few ideas expressed by the scoundrel Rogers Hornsby during his short stay in Mexico...