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Word: cad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place on Fifth Avenue, he at his on Park; 3) she liked twin beds, he a double one big enough to sleep a ball team; 4) he talked about building her a yacht with a glass bathroom, but never did. "I realized," said Actress Swanson, "that he was a cad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Politicos | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...days of bustles Earl Wilson would have been called a cad. In these days, 40 newspapers pay around $50,000 a year for his stuff, and 78,426 people have put down $2 to get it in book form (7 Am Gazing into My 8-Ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Saloon Editor | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...chin. . . . Did you ever hear the story of Svengali and Trilby? This fellow is just a little runt of a Svengali. He's not even a monster . . . just a little runt. . . . This fellow doesn't lie like a gentleman. He lies like a cheap Cockney cad. ... That man goes around fornicating . . . with the same aplomb that the average man orders bacon and eggs for breakfast. He is a hoary headed old buzzard . . . with the instincts of a young bull ... a master mechanic in the art of seduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...from "our girl" Helen the other day. She is now on vacation for three weeks--one week of which is now past. During this time there is, and probably will continue to be a noticeable clearance of corridors on the first deck of Baker. (By the way will the cad who stole that picture of Helen out of our room please return same...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/4/1944 | See Source »

...result, Monty is hardly the darling of the elderly brass hats of the Army and War Office, whose rating of him-depending on what he has been up to most recently-varies from "upstart" to "bounder" to "cad." Monty, unabashed, goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Meeting in Normandy | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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