Word: shrewishly
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Philip was married to Olympias, the daughter of the king of Epirus, and three years afterwards was born a boy who got history's best imperial training, whom his father nurtured lovingly and carefully that he might become a Conqueror. A boy whose shrewish, selfish, cruel, fanatical mother soon taught to hate his father...
Helen Westley, with the magnificent eyes and nose of an owl, is Cap'n Andy's shrewish wife Parthy. Their daughter Magnolia, whose story is the sad old one of the girl married to a wastrel and abandoned, is Irene Dunne who, in black face and kinky wig, sings Gallivantin' Aroun'. Allan Jones, despite a good voice, makes Magnolia's Gaylord Ravenal into a handsome nonentity. Familiar to many a Show Boater will be Hattie McDaniel, an amiable and enormous Negro who helps Robeson with a rollicking song called Ah Still Suits...
...Fred joined Alvin Karpis in heading what the Department of Justice's J. Edgar Hoover called the brainiest, most dangerous gang in the U. S. Their brains, said the chief of the Federal Division of Investigation, were in the head of plump, thin-lipped, shrewish "Ma" Barker. Outstanding among their feats of killing, bank robbery and kidnapping was the abduction of Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker, for whom they collected $200,000 ransom (TIME...
...made him settle down again, accept a civil job as interpreter. Salama got his first week's pay, has managed him and their large family with shrewish boisterousness ever since. As head of the Arabic university, commandant of Goundam, interpreter in many a trial and on expeditions against the Tuaregs, Pere Yakouba added more laurels to his grizzling crown. Now most famed but no longer most respected citizen in Timbuctoo, he himself is not sure he has come the right way after all. Rich by native standards, he has a large mud palace, a large black wife, a large...
...have murdered his father, and the way of release from reality for the men, who depend heavily on periodic benders, Synge also shows the deep, unconscious yearning for the rare and the unknown in their earthy world. In the end the play becomes almost tragic as "Pegeen Mike," the shrewish heroine, realizes that she has lost her erstwhile wooer, "the only playboy of the western world...