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Even his fellow countrymen found "H.G." a bit of a puzzle, almost a cross between a card and a cad. Unlike most of the distinguished British authors of the century, he was neither an English gentleman nor an American expatriate. His father worked as a hired gardener, later owned a pottery shop which brought him little success; his mother, a onetime housemaid, became a rather incapable housekeeper. His own visage, which, in his journalistic heyday, beamed down on Londoners from billboards and the sides of the city's big red buses, was unrefined, not to say coarse; his voice...
...Race until vengeful Gambler Adler demands that he lose it or pay off with his life. But the jockey's son, whose hero worship has barely survived a touch of disillusionment, is counting on him to win. In this kind of situation, even a cad can work up enough nobility to keep a little boy's heart unbroken...
...night of January 14, the Russian had demonstrated that he was little more than a foreign cad-he admitted that he was married. He also tried to kiss her, for the first time. Judy had reacted like a milkmaid being pinched by a dry-goods drummer; she had wept and whacked him with a folded newspaper. Nevertheless, on the weekend of her arrest, she came back to New York "to get this thing settled...
...read the opposite page carefully, you will discover that I am a cad. Although the specific accusations over there are unjustified, the general effect is probably accurate. So many people have frowned on my character that they can't all be Free Enterprisers. Some of them must be right. This is, however, the first time that anybody has paid money to call me names. It shows that even vilification is getting expensive, which is something for the Free Enterprise Society to think about. Personally, I'm not sure if it's good or bad; but the paper's business manager...
...Evening Standard at 27, Cudlipp became Fleet Street's youngest editor.* Leaving the Beaver for the "politically more congenial" Herald in 1938, Cudlipp, an amateur versifier, dashed off his own epitaph: "One satisfaction I have had, and this will be eternal; I may become a left-wing cad, but I once ran a high-class journal...