Word: dastardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waste of breath would be to rehearse the villainy of Chang, his cupidity, his habit of snatching concubines out of perfectly nice Chinese families. The man is a double-dyed dastard. As military gov- ernor of Shantung Province under the late, great War Lord Chang Tso-lin (TIME. July 2), Marshal Chang Tsung-chang bled the people to ruin and starvation with outrageous taxes before he was driven out and forced to flee to Japan (TIME, Sept. 24) by the present Nationalist Govern ment at Nanking. The return of Dastard Chang from Japan at the head of a band...
...When Dastard Chang made what was thought to be his last stand against the Nationalists, he was hymned by Hearst Editor Brisbane thus...
...most famed and also infamous son of Pons, the late Prime Minister Justin Louis Emile Combes 1903-1905. Due to his efforts the Roman Catholic Church was disestablished in France, and ever since Combes has been a hero to the parties of the Left and to the Clericals a dastard. As Edouard Herriot prepared to pull the unveiling cord, he was conscious that a crowd by no means wholly friendly surged around him. Raising his deep timbred voice in sonorous appeal the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts cried: "After a lifetime of bitter struggle, Emile Combes declared...
...Post Office, the Department of Justice and chemists of the Naval Laboratory were asked to trace out the dark roots of a dastard, sinister conspiracy. To marveling callers, Senator Heflin showed how, had he tucked the fiendish violin under his massive chin, he might have inhaled microbes. He then answered a question that had puzzled many people-why he is allowed to live...
...everyone feels almost certain, going to continue his series of express train demolishments by wrecking the night flyer. To the great dismay of the little group waiting around for something to happen, he does just this; then the president of the road, on the point of naming the dastard's name, is shot down by some mysterious hand...