Word: bounder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along, Maureen O'Hara, an impetuous young woman of the 1880s, defies her respectable family to marry an impoverished painter (Dana Andrews with a beard). Soon after he takes her off to live in a picturesque London slum, Dana turns out to be just what mother suspected-a bounder. Fortunately for Maureen, he is also a drunkard. One bright morning-after, he topples off the front stoop and breaks his neck...
...showed affection for Cook's offerings as soon as it saw them. Wilde led off the top of the first inning with a long home run over Bob Thompson's head in right field. Agganis' single, Cook's error on Hurley's bounder, a line triple by Gayzagian, and Lyons' single produced three more runs before the Crimson could get the third...
Sneath kept trying. To the master of another distinguished school he wrote: "You will doubtless remember old Tubby Sneath-well, it will give you a helluva shock, you old bounder, because last year I took the headship here . . . Listen, Stinker, quite seriously, Selhurst is having a beano for its 300th anniversary on June 19. Could you come down, old boy, and give us a sermon on the Sunday?" Returned the headmaster's secretary, on the distinguished man's behalf: "Obviously not meant...
...peaceful countryside, awaiting the great moment. The press lavishes solicitude, photographs him smiling bravely through his ordeal. Editorialists who have lambasted him unmercifully for months before the Great Event (and will flay him even more heartily after it) permit him this week of peaceful gestation; only a bounder or a cad would kick a Chancellor of the Exchequer in this condition...
When police informed him that his wallet could be recovered at headquarters, he was taken aback, remarking, "The bounder, I never would have thought it of him. He rather duped...