Word: bounders
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...Bounder, Tightwad...
...Paris, one Harold E. Stearns, editor of the Criterion, author of Civilization in the United States, spoke of Author Sinclair Lewis. Said he: "Cad. . . bounder. . . tightwad. . . dumbbell." Irritated by an article in the American Mercury in which Author Lewis referred to him as "father and seer of the Cafe Dôme, who is an authority on living without laboring and who bases his opinions of people's intellectual capacity on the amount of money he can borrow from them," Editor Stearns continued...
...drink for anybody, at least 1,000 people would drop dead. . . . I am answering Mr. Lewis with words now, but some day I will answer him by punching his face in. . . . Just because by his malicious personal attack he exposes himself in public as a cad and a bounder, he cannot expect me to imitate...
...SHOW-OFF-A comedy redolent of life, dealing with a bounder whose nerve borders on genius...
William McFee, novelist: "The Cunard-Anchor steamship Tuscania, which has just sailed for the Mediterranean, is the only trans-Atlantic liner with a bookshop aboard. Captain David W. Bone, who wrote The Brass-bounder, and other books, commands this ship, and I, who wrote Command, Casuals of the Sea, and so on, am proprietor of her unique 'traveling Parnassus...