Word: slattern
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...Merivale is now sad because he is a small-town English nonconformist parson who has to live in a ghastly house with a leaking roof, put up with a whining wife, stand for any amount of bulldozing from his parishioners and much bad cooking from a gabbling, ill-trained slattern. He is sadder when one of his younger parishioners runs away. He is a little more cheerful when he goes after her and falls in love with her, but then he is much sadder than ever when she is killed in an off-stage railway wreck from which he escapes...
...book ends. Around his story revolve those of his kinspeople: Uncle Al is a shoe-salesman, a zealous defender of banal ideas and a tyrannical foster-father; Brother Bill is a sneak thief who has acquired a great store of misinformation about sex; Mother Lizz is a hard-hitting slattern whose great regret is that she did not become a nun; Aunt Margaret is a well-built hotel cashier whose love affair with a lumberman lifts her into the world of affairs and drives her to drink. The only warm-hearted character in the book is Jim O'Neill...
...years to get there. On the voyage they were captured by Algerian pirates, and Cervantes' prized letters got him the uncomfortable honor of being held for an impossibly high ransom. Back in Spain he found various ways of nearly starving, loved a slut who left him, married a slattern whom he gladly left. As a middle-aged tax collector for Philip's insatiable treasury Cervantes might have ended his weary days. But he fell foul of his superiors, was arrested for embezzlement and clapped into the big jail at Seville. There, with the scum of Spain...
...Betrayed carries the story of Vridar Hunter one more plodding step toward maturity. A poor Idaho farm boy, cursed with sensitivity and ambition, he has weathered a dismal childhood, a hellish adolescence, has married, halfway through his hard-won college career,a pretty slattern. Though he fiercely intends the marriage to be a success he knows the prospects are hopeless. We Are Betrayed is the story of its tragic failure...
...slattern mothers...