Word: harridan
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...harbor of Alexandria, a temple doorway in Jerusalem, a grotto in a desert beyond the River Jordan. Over the half-hidden orchestra, Composer Respighi benignly presided while wanton Mary of Egypt, his latest creation, flaunted her trade on the water front, repented and finally crawled, a sainted harridan, into a grave dug by a lion in the middle of the desert...
...tropics presuppose a disreputable cabaret, and the cabaret presupposes a girl who wants to keep straight or go straight. All these elements are supplied by the studio. Miss Twelvetrees is a stranded entertainer who is discharged when the depression penetrates to the tropics. There is a priceless old harridan of a honky-tonk proprietress, blowsy and affable, disreputable and roguish, who considerately allows Miss Twelvetrees to pick up a little silver from the sailors in a fitful, fretful, and amateurish way. But when she tries to steal passage money for the States from Mr. Charles Bickford, she over-estimates...
Once a Lady (Paramount). While her son is reaching his majority in The Sin of Madelon Claude t, Helen Hayes changes from a blooming peasant girl into a shrunken harridan, withered and stringy with age (TIME, Nov. 9). In Once a Lady, Ruth Chatterton survives the years which it takes her daughter to grow up without developing a single wrinkle. Both heroines pass the intervening period in more or less persistent prostitution. The fact that dissipation has a less damaging effect upon Ruth Chatterton may be regarded as a tribute to the durability of the First Lady of the Cinema...
...brought up as a perfect little Junker. His father had been a soldier, all his ancestors were soldiers: no other career was considered for him. He never spoke to his father without snapping to attention. When he was three or four he had for a nurse an ancient harridan who had served as a canteen woman in the Napoleonic wars. When little Paul so far forgot himself as to cry. this veteran would bellow "SILENCE IN THE RANKS!" It always worked...
...Author Erskine found profitable in his novel The Private Life of Helen of Troy. Jack, a soprano, loses gold, a hen and a magic harp to a Gargantuan bass giant. An old woman tricks him out of his faithful cow, burlesqued by two bassos who lyricize fore & aft. The harridan gives him a handful of beans which grow into the familiar beanstalk; he retrieves his treasures from the giant, who at last turns out to be an inflated rubber figure. The old lady by stages becomes a beauteous princess whom Jack marries and installs in his restored ancestral castle...