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Word: cad (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mamaroneck. When Noel's play and his affair with Margie both turn out to be flops, he flees to Paris, but Margie follows him, still determined to lasso the cad with a wedding ring. Aboard ship she meets another charmer, Mike Eden, who has a bad case of nerves, but for good cause: he is playing Scarlet Pimpernel in Nazi Germany and smuggling out persecuted Jews. Still, Noel has a fatal hold on her, and she finally catches up with him, only to find him living with and off a lady photographer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wouk Mutiny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...stands alone against a sky-blue set and moves his mouth expressively, while his voice drifts out of a distant amplifier. At the first break he piles into a box lunch, then takes a catnap. There are some dialogue loops to make, and then across town in his colossal Cad ("I like lots of armor around me"), with brooding on the way about "them Giants," happy cackling about "Rocky" Marciano or the fun he will have with the boys at Toots Shor's on a scheduled trip to New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kid from Hoboken | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...Cad's Career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...your Jelke story: headline of the week, month and year is "The Solid Gold Cad." If the jeu de mots was good enough for the Age of Reason, i.e., the 18th century, leave us give it a whirl in the 20th, and not a minute too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...piety, but a shapely dish can stir up his belief in "tart for tart's sake." As a brigadier, he wears a monocle, but is intelligent enough to look at the world with both eyes open. His nemesis takes the repulsive form of Claude Hermiston, a bully, a cad and a craven. It is Strang's destiny to be deviled by Hermiston in school, on dates, in the army, and even in his marriage. On the front in 1917, Hermiston tricks Strang into being tried-for cowardice, and it takes Strang another war to prove his courage. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Dec. 27, 1954 | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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