Word: bounder
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...should call Gibson a contemptible little bounder," drawled British-born Mrs. Litvinov...
...were attractive to men and went out a great deal, seldom together. Cecilia thought of marrying again but knew what was what, investigated matrimonial candidates with care. Emmeline. touchingly business-like in her travel agency, was blind as a newborn infant when if came to love. When Markie, clever bounder Cecilia had already seen through, laid siege to her. Emmeline surrendered unconditionally. By the time Cecilia discovered what was going on, the harm was done. Markie, who knew better than to marry anybody, had broken Emmeline's heart by acting like the honest cad he was. If Emmeline...
Timid? Cowardly? Vain? Dishonest? Untruthful? Easily bored? Was this, wondered London last week, any way to describe the healthy, cricket-playing backbone of the Empire, the British public school boy? Heaven forbid. But there, in banner headlines in the London Press, glowered those very words. What bounder had dared utter them...
...Forthright, tart-tongued, intellectual, is Daughter Ivy Litvinov. Often a member of Russian delegations in her own right, at Geneva in 1929 she termed U. S. Ambassador Gibson "a contemptible little bounder." A dabbler in literature, she has a mystery thriller to her credit. In Moscow it is her duty to give the best, biggest official parties...
...with a mere million tongues but with six millions. Viscount Rothermere's blatant Daily Mail has the largest circulation of any newspaper whatsoever.* Allied in policy, and partially interlocked with the Rothermere interests by stock holdings, are the scarcely less potent papers of Baron Beaverbrook, often called "bounder" by British aristocrats, born and christened William Maxwell Aitken in Canada...