Word: wench
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...wave her hands about with her usual abandon, she was very pleasant. It is true that she was a thoroughly feminine Cesario, but she is so accomplished an actress that the distortion was unnoticed. Maria as played by Jessie Ralph was happily an oldish and slightly vulgar wench, and hence a very fitting companion for the raucous Sir Toby...
Then there was a wench who kept screaming: "Long live Russia!" The steward who put her out returned ruefully nursing a deeply bitten hand. Naturally the delegates on the floor were quieter than their friends in the gallery, but the Congress's trend was distinctly leftward. Neither Congress Chairman John Beard (a fusty old ex-insurance canvasser) nor the Labor Government's representative Home Secretary John Robert Clynes seemed able to stem the drift. In the end square-shouldered Ernest Bevin, fat, rumbling-voiced, forceful Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, emerged as the hero...
...Williams charge that, merely to avoid a church scandal, he has permitted the publishing house books to be doctored to hide the money theft. His friends deny this vehemently. Pierson, they aver, was murdered not because he carried incriminating records, but because he, a notorious philanderer, had vexed some wench's man. This sword of scandal the "enemies" tried to plunge into the head of their convention. But all during last week's sessions Dr. Williams kept bobbing out of harm, skillfully, urbanely...
...wench Melquiades Luna rushed with flashing machete upon Rope-wench Dorotea Mancilla who sat astride a prancing pinto pony. As the axe swung the pony pivoted and the lasso hissed. Caught and pinioned by the terrible rope, Axe-wench Melquiades was dragged over pebbly ground 150 ft., screaming for mercy. Neighbors said that shrewd Rope-wench Dorotea had challenged her rival to their curious duel "about something that has kept them angry at each other for the last two years...
Ladies All. Place a wealthy wench-conscious young bachelor in an isolated studio in the purlieus of Westport, Conn. Put within grasping distance a plump French maid, an unsatisfied wife, and a beauteous blonde sculptress whom he has long and vainly loved. Have one of the three pay an incognito midnight visit to his chamber. Next morning have each vehemently deny, then reluctantly admit, his charge. The result: pleasant theatrical fare for a summer evening. Ladies All is a doctored U. S. version of Rumanian Prince Antoine Bibesco's Who. Musicomedian Walter Woolf, in his debut as a legitimate...