Word: malefactress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillipsburg's ducking stools were either in museums, which refused to give them up, or else had long since been smashed into kindling wood to light Phillipsburg fires of a winter morning. The Judge was in a quandary. The law commanded him in unmistakable terms to have the malefactress ducked; on the other hand, even a judge cannot duck a lady without a ducking stool; unless he is willing to throw her in bodily--a thing which this magistrate's chivalry absolutely forbade. After hours of mental unrest, he compromised with a suspended sentence of six months in jail...
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