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...labor and in exile before he escaped in the uprisings of 1905. At 84 he is robust and hearty, talks incessantly of his exploit. "I was one of the principal organizers of the whole undertaking [against Alexander II]" boasted Assassin Frolenko last week. "For two years we hunted that scoundrel Tsar and at last we got him!" "Do you still approve your deed? Do you still approve of terror generally?" "I certainly do!" replied the Bomb Boy, who is a year younger than President von Hindenburg, "I certainly do!" Besides Josef Stalin the Society of For mer Political Prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: 16,000 Years in Chains | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...imputations." Then Col. Cash's son published the famed circular "Camden Soliloquies," jingling at Shannon: "My daddy was a gin-maker." Shannon then wrote: scurrilous, vulgar. libelous, false and dirty language." Cash replied : . . . I have with great reluctance come to the settled conclusion that you are the unmitigated scoundrel you have been represented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

Somewhere in the Holy Writ an account is given of a man who had one little ewe lamb and some miserable scoundrel came and snatched it away from him. The fair city of Augusta had one little ewe lamb and TIME has come and snatched it away from her. The lamb was Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who has visited the Bon Air for the past 20 years every spring, who is an honorary member of our Bar Association, who preaches to us every time he comes here, who is our chiefest drawing card and of social and educational value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 7, 1932 | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

While Japan was tightening its grip on Manchuria last week, a baldish, blue- whiskered dissolute Russian scoundrel-brigand was plotting to tear another strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONGOLIA: Again, Semenov | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...years ago the CRIMSON had a picture of me which I liked a great deal but after it had appeared once some scoundrel from Chinatown came in and claimed it as a portrait of his uncle. The CRIMSON rather than doubt my parentage and ancestry, gave him the picture...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: HUEY GIVES HARVARD WIN OVER DARTMOUTH 21 TO 10 | 11/7/1931 | See Source »

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