man about town vs modern

man about town

noun
  • A worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places. 

modern

noun
  • Someone who lives in modern times. 

adj
  • Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography. 

  • Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient. 

How often have the words man about town and modern occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )