Word: cad
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...habit of calling a spade a double-blank, worm-turning, corrupt appendage of his Satanic majesty. Some call it the return of Elizabethan zest, all this hardriding, goddamning and firing of bon-mots that whiz like shells by night but look like duds in the morning. Caroline, the female cad of this chronicle, is said to have served Love, "the capricious boy who makes bedfellows of us all." Another young lady is directly addressed by a term seldom heard outside the dogshow. If you are of a cheerful cast, however, you cannot but recognize much mother wit among the refuse...
...Horses. Jack Holt and Florence Vidor are fairly entertainingly occupied in a marine adventure in which a typhoon is prominently concerned. He is a sea captain and she the wife of an Englishman who once might have been described as a cad...
...Cad, Bounder, Tightwad...
...Paris, one Harold E. Stearns, editor of the Criterion, author of Civilization in the United States, spoke of Author Sinclair Lewis. Said he: "Cad. . . bounder. . . tightwad. . . dumbbell." Irritated by an article in the American Mercury in which Author Lewis referred to him as "father and seer of the Cafe Dôme, who is an authority on living without laboring and who bases his opinions of people's intellectual capacity on the amount of money he can borrow from them," Editor Stearns continued...
...ever caught buying a drink for anybody, at least 1,000 people would drop dead. . . . I am answering Mr. Lewis with words now, but some day I will answer him by punching his face in. . . . Just because by his malicious personal attack he exposes himself in public as a cad and a bounder, he cannot expect me to imitate...