Word: cad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circuit because of his agreeable dark baritone voice and the quiet conviction he brings to even the most outlandish tales. These seven of his own songs include Give My Love to Rose, the message of a fellow dying on the railroad tracks, and Folsom Prison Blues, intoned by a cad who "shot a man in Reno, just to watch...
...Thackeray's antihero, christened Redmond Barry, was a soldier, Member of Parliament, traitor, spy, gambler, spendthrift and all-round cad. He hounded the rich Lady Honoria Lyndon into marriage, taking her name as well as her fortune. The luck of Barry Lyndon finally ran out in a London prison, where he died of delirium tremens...
Their bliss was only temporary, for by now West German police had been alerted by Dorothea's parents. Catching up with Selle, the cops threw the cad into the Flensburg jail, then appealed to the East German authorities on Dorothea's behalf. For once, Red Boss Walter Ulbricht's stern Vopos listened sympathetically, last week released a sadder but wiser Dorothea after six weeks behind bars...
...Lord Pengo, a tracing-paper-thin characterization of Art Wheeler-Dealer Jo seph Duveen. Boyer was slyly fascinating; the play provoked yawns. In Man and Boy, Boyer plays Gregor Antonescu, a blurry blotting-pad version of the 20th century's master swindler, Ivar Kreuger. Boyer makes a charming cad; the play is a jaw-aching bore. If the evening proves anything, it is merely that actors who are graded 100 for talent sometimes get zero for judgment...
...Dorothy Thompson was at the beginning of her later fame, and at the bitter end of her marriage to Josef Bard, a sponging Hungarian cad whom she had mistaken for a genius. Despite the presence of a former Prime Minister of Hungary, the "momentous guest" was a 42-year-old American novelist-Sinclair Lewis. After dinner, the guest wasted no time, cornered his hostess and asked her to marry him (he neglected to mention that he was already married). Replied Dorothy: "I don't even know you, Mr. Lewis...