Word: scoundrels
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There were many subjects that Adolf Hitler skipped in this week's speech to the Reichstag. He did not skip the cold Russian winter, and underlined the fact that the thermometer had dropped to 62° F below. He got in the "archcapitalist" British, the "scoundrel" Jews, the "criminal" Churchill, the "maniac" Roosevelt, the "heroic" Japanese, and the Almighty, of whom he asked "nothing more . . . than that He should bless us in the future as He has done in the past...
...Scoundrel. In London, George Hall was given seven days in jail for "willfully disturbing other persons" in an air-raid shelter by snoring...
...Malta sent off a solid gold jewel-encrusted falcon as a gift to their sixteenth century over-lord, Charles V of Spain, they could hardly have imagined the complications that would ensue when it cast its shadow over the lives of an English gentleman of leisure, an oriental scoundrel, an adventuress, and a San Francisco private detective. And when the spectator sees the quartet assembled in the detective's apartment for the denouemeut, he has hardly more idea of what comes next than when he hears the first shot ring out and sees the victim crumple up and roll down...
...writer who wrote on Stalin in the Oct. 27 issue of TIME has done a heart-rending job. . . . He performed an amazingly miraculous transformation. In a few short paragraphs Stalin has been transformed from the most bloodthirsty scoundrel on earth not only to a mere saint but to the deity of all the Russias...
...20th-Century damozel who is shot by a jilted swain (Gene Raymond) at her wedding to Brian Aherne, and Kathleen, the 20th-century ward of the aged bridegroom, who bitterly resents his ward's falling in love with the American son (Mr. Raymond again) of the scoundrel who shot his bride...