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...else's hat was on the hatrack. His jealousy and shame drove him to drink. Lixlee was diabolically cunning, never let him get any proof, though apparently she took on any handy man, at any hour. If Authoress Canfield is to be believed, Lixlee was not only a nymphomaniac but a sadist; finally she turned golddigger and ran off with the town's rich old bachelor. Anna, married now herself, could no longer help her brother in the old maternal way, but her matchmaking reaches a successful issue when her candidate came back to town and picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Witch | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...well in the U. S., but Mendel and his wife never got acclimatized; their bowels yearned for Menuchim. They were about to send for him when the War broke out. When the U. S. went in, Shemariah enlisted; the news of his death killed his mother. Miriam, now a nymphomaniac, had to be put in an asylum. Pious Mendel Singer turned at last against his religion, put away his robes and holy books. "People gossiped about him, saying that he went now and then into the Italian section, in order to eat pork and irritate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Red | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...play in which a nymphomaniac went to a bordello and took on a Japanese. (The Shanghai Gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Arraigment | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

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