Word: bounder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Hayworth's business to portray a woman as bad as she is beautiful. On the rebound from a young bum (Glenn Ford) she marries an elegant bounder (George Macready), who falls desperately in love with her. She then spends a large part of the picture acting as much like a nympholept as the traffic will bear and, since all this transpires in Buenos Aires, the traffic is reasonably lively. Mr. Ford, meanwhile, develops a fierce protective attachment for his boss, Mr. Macready. He runs his dressy gambling hell for him, supersedes him in his fascist-minded control...
Ribbentrop. "In London . . . a bouncing bounder. . . . Here he is now, changed surprisingly into a meek person like a family solicitor, with disordered hair, pursed lips and large spectacles...
...result, Monty is hardly the darling of the elderly brass hats of the Army and War Office, whose rating of him-depending on what he has been up to most recently-varies from "upstart" to "bounder" to "cad." Monty, unabashed, goes...
DEVER, J. Restricted, 1200 17 June to 1200 19 June. Offense--Scoring on error by second baseman. (The cad, on a bounder...
...length God identifies the Jonah, the unstrainable fly in the human ointment. He is "the essential treacherous cunning in man, the 'save a bit out of it' soul, the dodger of obligations, the profiteering partner, the undying Ananias, the sweater of opportunity, the area sneak, the bounder on the make, the official who is in with powerful friends, the player who never plays the game but studies the rules to claim an advantage. ..." Space is left for the reader to fill with "names of local personages and special acquaintances." Noah and God are both baffled and discouraged...