Word: caddish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regards adultery as a fine art, not a plaything for children. So he asks him to practice his wiles on the Baroness and if successful, to wire him "cherries are ripe." If feminine demureness prove the winner, the telegram is to read "cherries are sour." Sandor sets about his caddish work, and with La Roquian aplomb, reduces seduction to an absurdity. It is significant that the climax of the plot is reached only as the final curtain falls, presumably either to keep the audience in their seats, or to protect the actors at the end with the curtain...
...Dumb-Animal's English edition Author Sitwell has appended pages of English press comment on his previous work, some flattering, some not. Unflattering examples: ". . . merely caddish," ". . . snobbish...