Word: wantoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marjorie Bowen recounts ''with scrupulous exactitude" Sophie Dawes's strange and fascinating story in a volume that for originality and vigor makes most contemporary biographies look frail. No hero worshipper. Author Bowen calls Sophie a vulgar wanton, a young slut, compares her with a gutter rat, declares that "her worthlessness and the squalor of her tale is duly recognized by the author." Nevertheless she manages to draw a convincing flesh & blood portrait of her subject. Although The Scandal of Sophie Dawes, for all its impressive documentation, emphatically does not solve the great mystery of Sophie...
...bacteriologists of the stools of the 20 women who had served so helpfully at the picnic demonstrated that two of them were carriers of typhoid fever. Because they were not among Philadelphia's 30 labeled carriers and did not endanger the lives of relatives and friends out of wanton carelessness, names of the tainted pair were kept secret...
...learn that Mr. Dishart (John Beal), the rector at Auld Licht, has fallen in love with a gypsy. The panic in the parish is only exceeded by that of Mr. Dishart himself who, when he becomes aware of the state of his feelings, decides that the gypsy is a wanton. Actually, as the audience knows, Babbie is not a prowling vagrant at all, but the ward of Lord Rintoul, who lives in a castle at the top of the hill. Her habit of skulking through the woods in a dimity throw indicates not kleptomania but her desire to help...
...plus large payments in coal; and 2) Saar citizens will enjoy "equal rights" regardless of race, language or religion. Since the Germans have always known that they would have to buy the mines to get them, and since France has always maintained that she would protect Saar citizens from wanton oppression, the "agreement" amounted to a facing of facts...
...motive of wanton pomp or curiosity was leading President Roosevelt thither. When President Hoover visited St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John in 1931, he shocked their inhabitants by calling their domicile an "effective poorhouse." President Roosevelt has already expressed his intention of making the three little Virgins into a New Deal archipelago...