Word: trollope
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language. He enobled the New Englanders by showing their stoic but feeling response to disaster and death. Thomas has limited his action, and he must depend on speech for interpretation. As in a medieval morality play, his people are labeled and formularized, the baker is named Dai Bread, the trollop is Polly Garter. Many characters then become only undistinguished white keys upon which Thomas plays his song of humanity. And Captain Cat, though one of the three narrators and Thomas' central figure, is seldom more than a vacuum tube to broadcast the author's lyric commentary to his listeners. With...
...pious as to offend nobody. Fielding's heavy-handed satire proves only that he was better as novelist than as critic ... so perhaps we should be grateful that he missed the point of Pamela's wary innocence. That he would in the end prefer a tedious trollop like Amber, I very much doubt...
...What were men made of, that they could gaze at one girl with their souls in their eyes one moment-and turn as he was turning now, to the call of a blonde trollop?" Sabrina Home's bosom (a prominent feature of this novel) was agitated by this question whenever she saw Sir John Templar, in a bedroom across the street, "take a running jump and land ploof" alongside Molly Quin, his doxy. To make matters worse, Sabrina was married to old Sir William Wakefield, "a spent candle." How, Sabrina wondered, could she escape from Sir William and join...
...children of syphilitic parents or grandparents," he warns, "are never born equal to the child of clean blood." He inveighs against "the whining ingrate, the campus trollop of either sex, and the cinema degenerates, using pep hills to enliven their dreariness...
...dainty pistol just above the garter. She sets up shop in the frontier town of Bottleneck to track down the local varmints who killed her father. In the course of a plot with as many turns as her corset strings, Shelley has all the fun of acting like a trollop, then finally turns out to be a perfect lady, worthy of Sheriff Joel McCrea himself...