Word: cad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cad, 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...
...ever caught buying a 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...
Ella beheld Monsieur Ripois on Dollis Hill, stretching his arms to the spring sunshine in thanksgiving for his wellbeing, in vague supplication for something pure and fresh, possibly a new woman. Later, when he approached her, an erect, full-bosomed child-virgin, she did not see a little cad of 30-odd with a pale, muggy face, but remembered a man whose gesture had expressed the wonder she awaited in life. She made a dream of him, managed their whole affair in calm unquestioning ecstasy-quite the best affair he had ever had, thought Monsieur Ripois, until she told...
...slightest dip into philology would have shown the author the what is a "Cabot" etymologically? It is "the vulgar name" of a fish with many other aliases, "cabasuda," "cabasuc," "cabotin," "Joel", in short, a "bullhead." In heraldry it is a fish with a big head. "Little Codfish Bull cad at Harvard!". At this barbarous fish-chowder the Sacred Codfish, pale at the gills, bites off its own scales, and the codlings "waggle heir tails about," not in the praiseworthy intention of the hymn, but in agony and despair...