Word: vixen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misled by French eloquence." Nor was he ever. In 1936, still immune, he nearly caused a diplomatic breach between England and France by contemning France's role in the London Locarno Conference. Excerpt: "The position of France is as usual that of a bad-tempered vixen of a woman who up to a point has discovered that merely by making herself unpleasant she can get poor male things to do anything she wants...
...Vamp & Vixen. Ten years ago Bette Davis went to lofty Eva Le Gallienne, looking for a place in her Manhattan Civic Repertory company. Actress Le Gallienne dismissed her saying, "I can see your attitude toward the theatre is not sincere. . . . You are a frivolous little girl." Three years later, after a year with Universal Pictures, she was dismissed again, for lack of sex appeal. "I can't imagine any guy giving her a tumble," pronounced Carl ("Junior") Laemmle, 23-year-old Hollywood producer-genius...
...Goodman here? Oh, Mrs. Goodman, did you get the pail and mop I forgot to put in the closet? I just wanted to see if . . . " Then she looks around to spot Prince Charming, and if he happens to be there, she flushes and pretends to be embarrassed. The vixen...
...type; if she's rude, she is a hoyden; if lewd, a minx; if lovely, a nymph; if lovely and black-eyed, a houri (that comes from an Arabian word, he parenthesized with a smack of his lips). Now, you may think there is no difference between a vixen, for which are wrongly substituted the obsolete words 'virago' and 'termagant,' and a shrew. But there is! A shrew is always a brawling woman, while a vixen is merely bad-tempered...
...Cape country Author Harriss writes about was a fox country. Bears still snuffled through the woods, and otter and coon and deer were plentiful, but the only enemy foxes had to fear was man. In the swamp where the Vixen bore her litter lived one of them, an Indian trapper. No sport, he killed for his living. But he accounted for fewer foxes than the local hunt, whose master was the hard-drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps...