Word: wencher
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...money, made by buying up Continental dollars for pennies when most people thought they would become worthless. Overnight a man of affairs instead of a lowly leather dresser, he was still despised by the other well-to-do. He was uncouth, uneducated, a prodigious boozer and a shameless wencher. His wife was a shrew, his son a boor, his poor daughter none too bright and also addicted to the bottle. Dexter bought the finest house in town, and sat in it spitting tobacco juice on the carpets and getting drunk every night...
...routine, but he was by no means tolerant of other kinds of misconduct. Before his marriage, he carefully entered in his account books 50? expenditures for "Sensuality" and "Sensual Pleasure"; afterward, such entries stop. As a respectable father (ten children), he was roused by the rascalities of a French wencher, hoped that "Some Gentleman would only Cetch the Low minded Dog and Cow hyde him well." Sadly he reports: "A Mr. - was caught in bed with Mr. Parkers old Big Black woman Buster and a Mr. - was Caught in bed with old Lucy Brustie, Hard times indeed, when Such things...
...beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience so he can mount the rostrum and persuade the good folk to elect him Kansas' first Senator in 1861. He is elected, goes thoroughly jingo when the first shell bursts over Fort Sumter, becomes chairman...
Howard Theodore Wencher...
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