Word: dastard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York-born author worked in one too). There is flighty April Morrison a little breath of bedspring from Colorado, done in by a dastard who tools a white Jaguar. He refuses to marry her, but-Author Jaffe admits New York men are not wholly vile-he recognizes that there are some occasions on which a Jaguar is not proper. He shows up to escort April to the New Jersey abortionist in a rented, chauffeured Cadillac...
...well in competition with her less inhibited, almost riotous fellows. Her changing attitudes are clearly delineated, and she inspires sympathy and even love when she is thwarted by scheming conspirators. Earle Edgerton and Margaret Groome, as Sir Fox and Madame Cat, work together hand in glove. Their nonchalance and dastard evil, dispelled at the end when they too become human, are lustily executed. J.D. Shucter as Gepetto the puppetmaker, peers with great authority through horn rims, though his early slapstick might appear a trifle strained. Marc Brugnoni's Sandwich Man is marvelously rakish and sly, but no one ever gets...
Alas, the geese were very fat, for many a princeling came seeking the hand of the Princess Saralinda, the winsome ward of the dastard Duke, and all of them met a dire fate-all, that is, except Prince Zorn of Zorna...
Poet Martin Farquhar Tupper heard the shocking news and immediately produced a suitable poem: 0 dastard! Thus to strike that brow