Word: wench
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...Hanni, my love-you whore, you dirty bitch, you devil, you trashy wench, you poor darling sweet saintly Hanni!" Xaverl Bolwieser (Kurt Raab), a Bavarian stationmaster, has every reason to curse and care for his wife Hanni (Elisabeth Trissenaar). She sets his nights ablaze with her Lorelei beauty and passion, but she doesn't really love him. She loves making love, and so she exercises her power in one of the few ways open to a woman in 1920s Germany: by becoming an entrepreneur of lust. Promiscuous as a prancing stud, possessive as any hausfrau, Hanni drives "Fatty" Bolwieser...
SOME HAD SPECULATED that she was royalty, or at least a fashion model (which she is). Talk in Pennypacker 25 ranged from "I don't care who the wench is: I need her tonight" to the beautiful-young-heiress-promised-to-an-ugly-Greek-oil-magnate-but-yearning-to-run-off-with-an-average-guy-from-Northern-New Jersey scenario. The problem was, you see, that Catherine Oxenberg, 215 King's Road, Chelsea, London, England, SW3 was nothing more than a I-in, by 1 1/2-in. picture in the Freshman Register. She had a telephone number and a campus address...
SOME HAD SPECULATED that she was royalty, or at least a fashion model (which she is). Talk in Pennypacker 25 ranged from "I don't care who the wench is; I need her tonight" to the beautiful-young-heiress-promised-to-an-ugly-Greek-oil-magnate-but-yearning-to-run-off-with-an-average-guy-from-northern. New Jersey-scenario. The problem was, you see, that Catherine Oxenburg, 215 King's Road, Chelsea, London, England SW3 was nothing more than a 1-in-by-1 1/2-in picture in the Freshman Register. She had a telephone number and a campus address...
What is a woman? A "petticoat, skirt, moll, broad," according to one recent U.S. edition of Roget's Thesaurus. Also "the fair sex, girlie, distaff side, Venus, nymph, wench, grisette and bit of fluff." Such archaisms have a kind of antique charm for veteran Rogetophiles, but new times demand new stereotypes. Accordingly, the British publishing firm of Longman advertised in the London Times Educational Supplement for an editor to update its standard 1962 version of Roget's. The result, out last month after more than three years of work, brought some shocked reviews. Cried the London Sunday Times...
...people use the thesaurus to find the words they ought to be using." When asked which words he might suppress, McCormack looked up "woman" in his desktop U.S. edition. "Ah hah," he said, "here's 'broad.' I'd want to get that out. And 'wench.' And here's one that's out of the question - 'bit of fluff.' " But what does Lloyd's new British edition actually include as synonyms for woman? "Career woman," for one. And "Ms." And "women's libber." But also "broad, wench, moll, crumpet...