Word: cad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty years later, Roosevelt summarized the two schools: "Unquestionably the evil development of Harvard is the snob, exactly as the evil development of Yale is the cad; upon my word, of the two I think the cad the least unhealthy, though perhaps the most objectionable person...
...centuries 42 additional acts under which private persons might bring an action and collect the fine money were passed. People who went in for this were officially called common informers.* Although branded "viperous vermin" by James I's Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, and dubbed "that legal cad" by Punch, the common informer prospered. His most fruitful law: the Sunday Observance Act of 1780. Actions against the promoters of Sunday wrestling matches have produced fines as high as $4,000. A woman collected $14,000 after suing the owners of a movie theater which put on a Sunday...
...Thomas Erskine May published a treatise on parliamentary procedure which has been revised at intervals ever since. It includes a list of insulting words and phrases which the Speaker has ruled unsuitable for use in House of Commons debate. Among the banned expressions: insulting dog, behaving like a jackass, cad, caddishness, scurrilous, vicious vulgar, dishonest, swine, corrupt, criminal, blether (as applied to a speech), Pecksniffian cant. Last week the fifteenth edition of "Erskine May" was published; it showed four new epithets barred since the war's end: not a damned one of you opposite, stool pigeons, cheat, bastard...
Even his fellow countrymen found "H.G." a bit of a puzzle, almost a cross between a card and a cad. Unlike most of the distinguished British authors of the century, he was neither an English gentleman nor an American expatriate. His father worked as a hired gardener, later owned a pottery shop which brought him little success; his mother, a onetime housemaid, became a rather incapable housekeeper. His own visage, which, in his journalistic heyday, beamed down on Londoners from billboards and the sides of the city's big red buses, was unrefined, not to say coarse; his voice...
...Race until vengeful Gambler Adler demands that he lose it or pay off with his life. But the jockey's son, whose hero worship has barely survived a touch of disillusionment, is counting on him to win. In this kind of situation, even a cad can work up enough nobility to keep a little boy's heart unbroken...