Word: ugliest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West'chester County bedroom for Manhattan, suburban Scarsdale (pop. 14,500) is fiercely jealous of its upper-middlebrow status. Its streets curve and are often called lanes; it scorns the row house. Even the ugliest of its houses have what real-estate agents like to call "character...
Envenomed by repression, all the sisters fall madly in love with Pepe El Romano, who is engaged to the eldest, Angustias. Night after night the youngest, Adela, slips outside to make love to Pepe in a barn. The ugliest sister, Martirio, informs Bernarda. In an outburst of fury the widow shoots Pepe. Adela hangs herself...