Word: harridans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...sooner had she gone than the doctor began to feel guilty, was soon beside himself with remorse, aggravated by fever. He pursued her to the city, dogged her footsteps, offered his services imploringly. At last he was summoned. She had gone to the Chinese quarter, to a filthy old harridan who had nearly killed her, was now at death's door. All the doctor could do was hold the door open politely. But after she was dead he made out a false certificate of the cause of death, so that her husband would never know. Then he left...