Word: bounder
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Serious Laborites have called Jim Thomas a traitor to his party for joining the National Government. Jealous socialites call him a vulgar little bounder. Last week both groups were after his hide when Colonial Secretary James Henry Thomas appeared before Mr. Justice Porter to testify on the Budget leak...
...further snub to Scapegrace Carol II, George V. who detests "that bounder," caused to be invited Carol's cast-off wife, Her Majesty Helen of Greece and Rumania who resides in England...
...faintly ironic anecdote. As he passes from portrait to portrait, only one is able to draw phrases of condemnation from his respectfully admiring lips. All good Edwardians will applaud his taste. Author Maurois gives it as his considered opinion that Edward VII was a gentleman, Wilhelm II a bounder. As a sympathetic exhibition of the English pre-War generation The Edwardian Era should be hard to top; it might almost bear that seal so dear to the fronts of better-class London shops: "By Appointment to H. M. the King...
...people, to have the most varied of friendships, and still completely to retain his own integrity. In London, before going up to Oxford, he was standing at a hotel desk when there came a hearty clap on his back and a voice blurted forth "HELLO, fellow Eli." This young bounder, an orchestra-leader, had passes for most of the fashionable night-clubs, and in his company Professor Matthiessen made the rounds. This was his first meeting with Rudy Vallee. At the other end of his range of acquaintances is Mr. T. S. Eliot, whose poetry he greatly admires. Among...
...with cigarets, drink and music. To the telephone calls of people begging for her work she is disdainfully aloof. Randy Morgan (Randolph Scott) is the only man Cynthia considers marrying. In spite of his pleading, she sails unwed for a vacation in Europe. En route she meets an attractive bounder (Sidney Blackmer) who dazzles her with poetic maunderings and the information that on his English estate there is a pool where Poets Byron and Brooke once swam. Also aboard is Olga (Muriel Kirkland), another self-made woman whose belief it is that "all men are alike. One day they kiss...