Word: cads
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...watched the Dawsons' stormy married life Caroline took old Aristocrat Hugo as her fatherly lover. When she accidentally had a baby and Hugo's old wife died he wanted to do the right thing by her. To prevent him she married worthless Jock, gentleman rider and latent cad. He left her for Adventuress Sonia, who got as much money from him as she could, then set her cap at Maggie's husband. Maggie was a fighter and a single-minded woman: when she lost Buck she lost everything. The last time Caroline saw her friend...
...companion to an old lady in a private asylum. There she does not know how to defend herself from the doctor, is fired again, meets her gigolo, whom she has thought of day and night, and is happy with him for 24 hours. He is the biggest cad in the whole book, which ends appropriately in an unfinished conversation between the gigolo and Joy. in which he is applying all the thumbscrews known to his kind...
...corporation lawyer who has pampered his family until they are all incorrigible. His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy interior decorator are nauseating; his elder married daughter is verging on adultery; his subdebutante child reeks of alcohol; his undergraduate son is a bumptious cad...
...fragile blue-blooded fiance were snowbound for several weeks in a one-room cabin on the Siberian steppes. But in the theatre only one thing would be likely to happen-after both men had been seized with an overwhelming urge for the maiden, one of them would prove a cad, the other would enjoy the cabin as a quasi-nuptial chamber. All this is true of The First Law. Since it was written by Dmitry Schlegov, a Soviet Russian, the British fiance is the cad. He is removed by the Bolshevik in a tussle over a hatchet. The problem...
Then suddenly she was confronted, not by a "piece of nonsense" but by an actress whose virtue was a British household word -a thoroughly wicked woman, grist to the Arlenesque mill. This crafty villainess bewitches the carthorse into cad, and breaks Lily Christine's heart. Not the least of the heroine's anguish is over a respectable middle-class boyfriend whom she has unwittingly involved in the scandal. And just as the plot is thickening pleasantly, Lily Christine's creator pitches her under the wheels of a motor-lorry...