Word: cad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baby Sitting to Cad Kicking. The Sketch's Powell-play was a London summer phenomenon brought on by newspaper circulation managers' frantic efforts to keep their papers selling (the Daily Mail was offering a bus trip to Moscow...
...letters pouring into his own mailbox gradually turned favorable to Altrincham by a ratio of three to one. Letters to the working-class Daily Mirror were four to one in his favor, and even the middle-class Daily Mail, which at first received a rush of what-a-cad letters, found the mail turning more evenly to the lord as the week went...
Angelo (Raf Vallone) is a lusty Italian peasant, but no cad; for him, sex is a virtually impersonal bodily function, and he is delighted to find himself in the presence of three attractive targets: Agatha (Madeleine Robinson), the young widow of Angelo's best friend in a prisoner of war camp; her burgeoning teenage daughter Sylvia (Dany Carrel); her sulky sister-in-law Pia (Magali Noël), a sensuous charmer with a body like molded quicksand. Angelo is not thinking of farm labors when he eyes the ladies tauntingly and husks: "You don't have...
Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder; Allied Artists) suggests that the Big Bad Wolf can be devoured by Little Red Ridinghood-provided she plays her cad right. Romancer Claude Anet's 1924 novel Ariane, transplanted in the movie from Moscow to Paris, originally fascinated a generation of French schoolgirls, inspiring them to daydreams of enticing worldly seducers into marriage beds. A German film version (1931) with Elisabeth Bergner as its cunning heroine sent many a lovelorn Mädchen into similar transports...
...volume epic of the British in India. The book is a reliable old elephant, advancing indomitably over the narrative terrain while throwing the dust of unlikely adventures in the reader's eye. The gist of Far, Far the Mountain Peak is that, given enough rope in India, a cad may climb it-socially...