Word: rotter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Majority Rule. I have always believed in qualifications for the vote - a kind of meritocracy, as opposed to democracy. I think it leads to better government. I am critical of the system Jin which] a man who is an absolute rotter, a crook, has the same say as the best man in your land, the most brilliant man. I wonder whether democracy will survive under those circumstances...
...Collier's themes is Beating the Game. In his Season of Mists, a rotter named Bert goes girl hunting at a seaside resort. His manner is sleazy, his person shopworn, and in August, as he knows, he would not have stood much chance. But it is November, the bitter end of the season, and the girls still to be found will settle for less, which is to say for Bert. He worms his way to the good side of a gorgeous and lonely barmaid named Bella, only to find that she has an identical twin named Nellie...
...Bonnets (Knopf), has just been published. Equipped with nothing more than a few basic history texts and a taste for turpitude, Fraser now appears to be parlaying the fictional recollections of his imaginary character into something closely resembling a perpetual motion novel. Of course it helps to have a rotter like Harry Flashman up front. "Bluff, my boy-bluff, shift and lie for the sake of your neck and the honor of Old England." "Charles Elliott