Word: cad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep their happy little home inviolate against all comers attracted like bees to honey-chile Anna. Father-in-law Charles Winneger maintains a respectful neutrality, and so long as his sponging concession is assured he doesn't care much who the victimized son-in-law is. Gilbert Roland (the cad) was still in the running when we left, but our bets are on Colman...
...Gateshead, an accountant and ardent bowler, who drinks only water and dry ginger ale. Shouted he: "All things that are sweet and reasonable and Christian are being more and more jeered at and flouted. . . . We know that art and literature have been befouled. ... In literature every man is a cad and every woman a vamp. . . . We have the devotees of St. Vitus' dance called Jazz . . . volplaning down the descending scale. You hear crooners breaking their hearts every night-if anybody broke their necks I should not be sorry. . . . London is the playground of the idle rich. ... All this technique...
While debate on the Lend-Lease Bill rolled on last week, many a U. S. citizen raised shrill anti-war cries. Speaking for the leftist majority of the American Youth Congress, Executive Secretary Joseph Cad-den declared: "America's youth have repudiated every attempt on the part of the Administration and its lackeys to put over this war program...
...distinguished directorial exercise with three notable characterizations. A mustache, black curly hair, a soup-thick Italian accent hide the last vestiges of Captain Bligh in Laughton; Carole Lombard works the smell of tomato catsup into her hash-house waitress; William Gargan as the romantic ranch hand is a cad with gusto. Serious students of cinema technique will find many a valuable lesson watching these able craftsmen flex their artistic muscles as they act out the well-told tale of a pragmatic old Latin who would rather possess a pretty wife and baby even though both belonged to another...
...with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest form of animal life, or schoolmates they dislike. Samples: swine, tick, cad, oik, lout, drip, squirt, scug, goof. Townies often retaliate: e.g., their name for schoolboys of Durham University is varsity tits...