Word: lechers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onetime vaudevillean and Broadway star (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1926; Topaze, 1930), Morgan was equally adept at straight character roles (the pirate in Tortilla Flat, the coach in The Stratton Story) or at his specialty: the ineffectual, fatuous old party who was alternately a garrulous liar and a gabby lecher...
During 40 years in public life Theodore Bilbo had publicly admitted sins which would have shattered a dozen ordinary political careers. He had bragged of being a lecher, and of taking a bribe. He had double-crossed his political allies. When he ended his second term as governor in 1932, Mississippi had all but sunk into bankruptcy. His cries for "white supremacy" had affronted millions. But few demagogues had capitalized so skillfully on fear, prejudice and the human need for drama. The poor Mississippians whom he called "peckerwoods" elected him again & again...
Then and Now is a story built around the events of those few months. His Machiavelli is by no means the wicked Old Nick after whom the Devil himself is said to be named. He is a wary, humorous, thoughtful lecher with stomach trouble, who spends most of his free time worrying about how (and if) he is going to keep an assignation with a lady named Aurelia. During business hours he proves to be an astute, hard-working Florentine spy. He admires Borgia's ruthless audacity, but always from a diplomatic distance...
...possibilities of a simple plot with one lecher, two merry wives, and one jealous husband would not strain the imagination of even the Old Howard's scrip writer. What Shakespeare does with it is refreshing diversion from his weightier masterpieces which stimone's brain and prod one's soul...