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...without any definite atheist convictions, leading a sex life that is Casanovanic in theory but monastic in fact, boorishly bathed in beer, sweating out a degree and fighting to smother a lower-middle-class background with the correct set of socially acceptable diphthongs. The non-hero of this cad's paradise is John Chote, president of the junior common room at Sturdley College, an ancient, deliquescent foundation with a Victorian Gothic façade, where no memher has won any academic distinction since the 13th century...
...that can save him is known only to the book's heroine, Julie, the suicide's younger sister, a girl of indomitable goodness of heart and boundless puerility. Ben, of course, is on a presidential mission of civilization-shattering importance, but Julie still thinks he is the cad who drove her sister to doom, so she will not help. Or will she? The reader can only wish that F.D.R...
Soapy Sam Was a Cad. Most educated Englishmen were scientific illiterates, but Huxley greatly helped change that situation. He had speculated about evolution some years before Origin of Species was published, and in the five years after it exploded on the world (in 1859), Huxley exploded with it by issuing 46 major publications on subjects ranging from the fishes of the Devonian epoch to the New Labyrinthodonts from the Edinburgh coalfield. With a "basilisk artistry" on the lecture platform and "a certain ruthlessness," Huxley loved to bandy texts and split hairs with the theologians. He signed letters in mock church...
...lawyer tells me that he received an inquiry from you as to whether my book, Memoirs of a Professional Cad, was ghostwritten [March...
...have muddled on without an autobiography of George Sanders; but the same might be said of the new precracked bottles of guaranteed-foaming nonchampagne for E-Z ship hunching. Uncorked this week by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the champagne in Actor Sanders' Memoirs of a Professional Cad ($3.50) is at least genuine, and it foams fairly often...