Word: stoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 22). When police burst into the home of Sentimental Lyric Writer Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenbury, 38, who called her rich and aged husband by the pet name "Rats," they found him dying, found on the wooden mallet that killed him fingerprints of callow, adoring Chauffeur George Percy Stoner...
Chauffeur Stoner, it came out at the trial, had been fortified with sandwiches containing cocaine and Mrs. Rattenbury explicitly confessed herself his mistress. This state of affairs so disturbed Mr. Justice Humphreys that it took him 3½ hours to charge the jury in Old Bailey. He told them with evident regret that pity for the drugged and passion-crazed chauffeur could not extenuate the crime of murder, nor could repugnance for "Rats'" wife count properly against her at this trial...
Equally undecided was Chauffeur George Stoner: "Mrs. Rattenbury called up to me 'Come down and help me get "Rats" to bed.' I wiped up the blood at her instructions. No, I did the job myself...
...include a growing fondness for the ablative absolute, have hardened into a mannered manner that is more poetry than prose. And her narrative, never rapid, has turned more descriptive, more rhapsodic than ever Her people do a deal of "looken, thinken," but spend most of their time "talken." When Stoner Drake's second wife died, he solemnly vowed never to set foot on God's green earth again. And nobody even attempted to laugh him out of it. He continued to exercise omnipotence over his farm, had a lookout built for himself, kept his household on edge...
Science has given housewives the mechanical dishwasher, the tireless cooker, the cherry stoner, the self-agitating cocktail shaker, the cast-iron pea sheller. but not until last month did U. S. housewives have a machine to make cream...