Word: cad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into this precarious and primitive world bursts Charlie Hook (Dirk Bogarde), Mother's former husband and therefore the children's putative parent. Charlie is the classic cad; he gulls the kids with razzle-dazzle and big talk, swindles them out of their savings, and fills their mother's house with booze and popsies. The climax comes when Charlie puts the house up for sale, profanes their devotions, and triumphantly vilifies mother...
...language that was modish in Chaucer's days. "She's an intermewed eyas, and not yet enseamed" means: "She is a young falcon that has recently molted and is still too fat to hunt." A few falconry terms have made their way into modern vocabulary. A "cad" is a person fit for no other occupation than carrying somebody else's hawk; "booze" is a derivation of the falconer's "bowse," to drink...
...resourceless and unbelievable: Governor Charles, the realist, has his brother Phil, the idealist, committed to an insane asylum. The story is narrated by Jimmy's nephew, Jack Kinsella, who supplies the book's other direction. Jack's wife Jean has run off to Europe with a cad, but later returns to his side. Reunited, Jack and Jean visit Ireland, where the book comes to a happy ending: Jean conceives...
...crook in charge of plots. After his Bentley has bested Bourvil's midget Citroën in a two-car tie-up, De Funès decides that he has found the dupe to drive a certain white Cadillac convertible from Naples to Bordeaux. More than hot, the Cad is a crime wave on wheels; its bumpers are full of gold, its fenders are full of heroin, its battery contains a fortune in precious stones, and the fabulous You-Koun-Koun diamond is hidden among the optional accessories...
...real combat takes place in lawyers' offices as the parties bargain-and punish each other. Now the woman scorned makes the cad pay: alimony may cost the husband one-third of his income, in some cases may continue even after his wife remarries. Children become pawns in the bargaining process: if he holds down alimony, she holds down visiting privileges. The hotter the fight, the higher the fees; some unscrupulous lawyers even inflame the sides to inflate the charges. Meanwhile, no one represents the children. They are commonly awarded like trophies to the "innocent" party, who is not necessarily...