Word: bounderish
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...faded in the '20s, it was not just that history had passed him by in the mass move of the discontented vote from liberal radicalism to trade union socialism: Lloyd George was too busy being a pasha to be a pundit or a prophet. Fame, money, wit, his bounderish bounce and white-maned, apple-cheeked handsomeness proved catnip to women, and he maintained what his son calls a "modern seraglio" at Churt, his princely estate in Surrey. On one of his increasingly rare visits to the old man's home Richard answered the phone; the caller' wanted...
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