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Word: bitche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exhibits A & B in this clinical study of the disintegrative effect of great wealth on weak characters are the family heir, Gary Whitfield (whom his sister commonly addresses as "Stinker"), and his sister, Anne-Charlotte (whom her brother sometimes characterizes as "a nasty little bitch"). There is also Reese, a sharecropper's son who is brought up with Gary and Anne-Charlotte to act as an elevating influence. He succeeds chiefly in being sardonic and truculent. Written on the Wind reports the lifelong intellectual homosexuality between Reese and Gary. It also reports one or two murders, a suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Slime & the River | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...They should hang the man," he said, in words touched by the Italian accents of his youth. "He is a no-good son of a bitch. I should pull the rope. This is too much of a trial. They should never give him a trial. They never trialed us. They killed people like flies. Send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: The Last Word | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

Along with Mauldin [TiME, June 18], I have chased the war from Sicily to Germany, and every mile has been the lighter because of him. But you have missed the reason why G.I.s are so fanatically for him. I bitch and the other tired old men around me bitch, but we feel that none of the brass ever hears any of it. And that makes it all seem even more futile than it is. But we know that Mauldin hits home where we can't. Maybe General Patton has only seen two, but every squawk. from him, from Base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...away huge sums-to friends, charities, young men trying to get a start in life. But sometimes the very combination of Christian and Monster seemed intolerable. "Your brother has a heart of gold," said Novelist James M. Cain to Will Woollcott, "and how I hate the son-of-a-bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fabbulous Monster | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...with Lance Diamond, a husky degenerate who had wangled a private room with a cot and kept himself in pocket money by renting it to furtive couples. Mrs. Jenks, once an ordinary matron, in time grew nearly as obnoxious as Lance. A persistent troublemaker, she called the young women "bitch" and "whore" to their faces. Most of the other prisoners just grew thinner and more depressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In a Jap Internment Camp | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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