Word: trollope
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...perjury and, finally, for second-degree murder. Next came eminent physicians, who examined bits of skin tissue under a microscope, cast doubt that violence alone had caused Melendes' death. The Civil Liberties Committee, taking up Brinkley's case, could now find no witnesses who remembered anything. (The trollop who had posed for the picture with Melendes could not even recall what...
...often, moreover, the war news is shunted off the front page in favor of flashier items. The hero (Gregory Peck), a brilliant young doctor thwarted by his superiors, abandons his work to toss off a best-selling novel, and his wife to take up vith a high-stepping trollop (Wendy Barrie). But medicine and matrimony eventually...
Author Paul discovered his beloved street one soft summer night in 1923, when it was still possible "to do things without premeditation." After dropping into "the most perfect small Gothic church in France, St. Severin," he picked up a trollop named Suzanne. She steered him into the rue de la Huchette...
...marries one Melvyn Douglas, publisher of a Manhattan magazine called Tides and Currents. Half poet, half Napoleon, he leaves her in the snow to rush East on pressing publication matters. When he fails to return, Garbo goes after him, inadvertently poses as her own imaginary sister (a fascinating international trollop) and seduces her husband with ease. Everything ends slaphappily back in snowbound Idaho...
Johnson writes: "In the whole Roosevelt record there is not a single great musician, painter, sculptor, or other artist, and not a single madman. No Roosevelt ever died as a martyr to some great cause, and none was ever shot in a quarrel over a trollop. Up to the eighth generation there is no conspicuous instance in which a Roosevelt ever refused to do his duty, and none in which one ever did much more than his duty. For 250 years the family record was remarkably clear of both scandal and glory." Suddenly out of the line appeared...