Word: bounders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Provoked, Editor Garvin alsc alluded savagely to the fact that smart Britons often refer to Britannia's editor as that bounder "Filbert Swankau...
...present. They are: 1) Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere (Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Evening News), brother of the late and greatest British news titan, Viscount Northcliffe; and 2) William Mawell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook (Daily Express and Evening Standard), a self-made Canadian, still sometimes referred to as "that bounder", but generally accorded the respect due a man who has made a cool £1,000,000 in business and then "retired" to enjoy the sport of maneuvering himself into the peerage...
...architect whose fine instincts are being tortured by his unhappy marriage, so that you will scarcely blame Sara for leaving child and housekeeping to abscond with him ?at that point they turn on Siercy, who was sadly dished in the first place, and they transform him into a bounder. Incapable of carrying further what they have called Romance, they revile and belittle and finally pity it. They send Siercy away in shabby disgrace and exalt dull William Henry into a nobly understanding husband who mutters modestly about his part in the Great War. It is anything but fair...
...Lordship is a great student of the English language. . . . Perhaps Your Lordship will spell two score words against my friend-?100 to the winner. . . . Your Lordship has the repute of being a sportsman. . . ." The wine sang, but served to charm from Lord Birkenhead only his normal reaction to a bounder. "Sir," he said, courteously enough, "I have never seen you before, and I have no desire to see you again." Pause. "However, since you appear to wish to lose ?100, I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven...
...Vienna, Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraten, bounding tennis-player, so-called "tennis-playing bounder," was asked whether he intended to marry Suzanne Lenglen. Said...