Word: quakeresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Back Countries' . . . young girls accede almost without hesitation to all caresses of men whom they have seen that day for the first time.. . ." If "When a Quakeress feels lecherous impulses, she notifies her husband of it and does her best to make him share her torment...
...year when mayhem, murder, dipsomania, drug addiction, perversion and incest are much commoner in U.S. novels than in U.S. life, Ilka (In Bed We Cry) Chase has contributed a novel whose muted prurience is almost prim. The story concerns the adventures of two U.S. Quakeresses* named Bean. They are natives of Lanesboro, Pa., where the Widow Bean's father keeps a general store. There, after a week of whirlwind courtship, an itinerant spaghetti salesman named Rechetti marries the widow and whisks her and her daughter, Tilli, off to Italy. He has neglected to tell his U.S. wife that...
...with Chapman, who was his own legman and even typed his own copy, Hedda Hopper is real Hollywood. Not by accident has she risen in four years to challenge Lolly Parsons as chief outlet for Hollywood publicity. At 52, brown-haired, boisterous Hedda, who started life as plain Pennsylvania Quakeress Elda Furry, has been nearly 25 years in the movies (acting in over 100 pictures), was the fifth of the late Actor DeWolf Hopper's six wives, between times got "kicked around plenty" while staging fashion shows, coaching actors, selling real estate, even running for political office...