Word: cad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Civil progress, and not antiquarian musings, finally put an cad to conjecture. In 1910 Cambridge began tearing up Massachusetts Avenue to put in a subway line. Under the street across from Wadsworth House, workers came upon a substantial stone and mortar fact--the cellar walls of Cow Yard Row. On the Yard side of the street, looking down from the Square, had stood three houses: Goodman Goffe's, Goodman Peyntree's, said the Revernd Mr. Shepard's. In the middle house, Mr. Peyatree's, Harvard College had its first home...
Nigel Molesworth, no weed, cad, dirty rotter or funk, is the curse of St. Custard's, or so he claims. St. Custard's is a very English boys' school, built by a madman in Gothic tempered by Byzantine, and run by a monstrous regiment of headmaster, masters and matrons, against all of whom Nigel is plotting revolution. He proclaims: "When we arrive in our helicopters we shall take over the skool and feed all with cream. FREE THE SLAVES...
...Scrivner, who drives an Oldsmobile 98 (his top speed: 65 m.p.h.) had already won his campaign: while the investigation was still on, the Air Force had quietly dropped the finish flag on the races, canceling all that had not been contracted for. Curt LeMay had long since sold his Cad-Allard and was driving in a more sedate sports car of his own building-an old Indianapolis frame, a sleek plastic body, a souped-up Cadillac engine with Hydra Matic transmission...
...hand, was showing clear signs of cooling in her affections for Joe DiMaggio, while Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan definitely called it quits, with Aly settling a reported $50,000 a year on daughter Yasmin. Aly, reported Rita's lawyer, C. Bartley Crum, had behaved like a thorough cad: "Why, he even complained when she took French lessons...
Crities held that the consolidation required under the merger plan would cost more than the saving of space justified. Further, they argued that with each book listed under only one card, loss of that cad would mean loss of the book...