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Word: cad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like Ed Wynn, and you're a cad if you don't, you had better see "Simple Simon." He is, together with Joc Cook, one of those rare souls whom age can not wither...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/10/1931 | See Source »

...securing the same actors whenever these parts turn up is the theory that bit-part actors, like the stars, have their personal following. But this system has weaknesses, and Ten Cents a Dance suffers from the fact that Monroe Owsley happens now to be Cinema's outstanding cad. His chin is in favor for its weakness, his eye for its shiftiness. The common knowledge that Monroe Owsley is a cad gives away the plot. Last week he was a cad in Honor Among Lovers and, sure enough, Ten Cents a Dance has an identical story about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...watched the Dawsons' stormy married life Caroline took old Aristocrat Hugo as her fatherly lover. When she accidentally had a baby and Hugo's old wife died he wanted to do the right thing by her. To prevent him she married worthless Jock, gentleman rider and latent cad. He left her for Adventuress Sonia, who got as much money from him as she could, then set her cap at Maggie's husband. Maggie was a fighter and a single-minded woman: when she lost Buck she lost everything. The last time Caroline saw her friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White-Eyed Woman | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...companion to an old lady in a private asylum. There she does not know how to defend herself from the doctor, is fired again, meets her gigolo, whom she has thought of day and night, and is happy with him for 24 hours. He is the biggest cad in the whole book, which ends appropriately in an unfinished conversation between the gigolo and Joy. in which he is applying all the thumbscrews known to his kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Joy Unconfined | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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