Word: sordido
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Richard Nash plays the Police Officer, Sordido, Antonio and the Duke. Somehow he manages to distinguish between all these roles with startling versatility. His officer is the best Irish copper this side of Sean Connery in The Untouchables...
...Moulton then proceeded to illustrate by reciting and condensing parts of "Every Man out of his Humour," how each labled humour had its innings and then was put out. First he gave Jonson's Sordido, the farmer whose avarice culminates at the point where he upbraids the men who cut him down for not untying the new halter. Then followed the sketch of Sir Puntarvolo who united two humours. The first, his fad for reviving the elaborate manners of chivalry is destroyed by being caught in an absurd "make believe" situation. The second, his proclivity for dealing in "returns...
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