Word: lothario
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have crept into his writing, giving it a leisured charm which recalls the 18th Century essayists. Yet withal, he can cock an interested and appreciative eye at the doings of quite alien spirits, and can write with gusto about the Cardinal de Retz, that insouciant and child-like Lothario, Sam Pepys, and Beaumarchais, of whom he remarks delightedly: "He may have been a bad lot; but he was evidently a good sort...