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...distinguished directorial exercise with three notable characterizations. A mustache, black curly hair, a soup-thick Italian accent hide the last vestiges of Captain Bligh in Laughton; Carole Lombard works the smell of tomato catsup into her hash-house waitress; William Gargan as the romantic ranch hand is a cad with gusto. Serious students of cinema technique will find many a valuable lesson watching these able craftsmen flex their artistic muscles as they act out the well-told tale of a pragmatic old Latin who would rather possess a pretty wife and baby even though both belonged to another...
...with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest form of animal life, or schoolmates they dislike. Samples: swine, tick, cad, oik, lout, drip, squirt, scug, goof. Townies often retaliate: e.g., their name for schoolboys of Durham University is varsity tits...
...romances ravenously, set desperate stock in a gypsy's prophecy of a house among trees in sunlight, a great love to come. In middle age she got the house, in the mountains of West Wales. Soon after came the great love, Lew Gower, too sea-bottom low a cad even to recognize his own evil. Lew flattered her and slept with her until he got all her money. But when his wife died he married not Esther, as he had promised, but Lettice, a kind and comely young woman. From then on Pay Thy Pleasure grows more and more...
...that you know what you're in for, you cad...
...Bruins have plenty of punch with John Marsolini, the third sacker, out-fielder Dave Redford first baseman Harry Platt, and second baseman Cad Arrendell packing most of the dynamite...