Word: scamps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bertram is, to be blunt, a scurvy scamp-hardly a model of what a hero ought to be. Yet people go on trying to defend the indefensible. Dr. Johnson hit the nail on the head two centuries ago when he wrote: "I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram-a man noble without generosity, and young without truth; who marries Helena as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate; when she is [reportedly] dead by his unkindness, sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman whom he has wronged, defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed...