Word: torment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take savage pleasure in initiating "pollywogs" (sailors who have not crossed the equator before) into King Neptune's "Royal Order of Shellbacks." The 350 shellbacks aboard busied themselves fashioning clubs out of canvas stuffed with rags, constructing a throne for Neptune, a ducking pool and other devices of torment for his victims...
...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...
...Torment. A well-told Swedish melodrama about a schoolboy, a girl and a psychoneurotic teacher (TIME, April...
...Torment. A well-told Swedish melodrama about a schoolboy, a girl and a psychoneurotic teacher (TIME, April...
...Torment. A well-told Swedish melodrama about a schoolboy, a girl and a psychoneurotic teacher (TIME, April...