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Word: wenches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED-Edith Wharton-Appleton ($2.50). Vance Weston, son of a small-town real-estate operator who has made, not a "pile" exactly but a neat mound, feels immortal longings in him. He writes poetry and learns about a small part of life from a wanton wench. When he catches his own grandfather with the same clay-footed goddess, the shock brings on an attack of typhoid. When he is convalescent, his family are so relieved at his recovery that they humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quiet, Please | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Glass Slipper. Kitchen-Wench Irma, nude bather, kitten's wetnurse, joins a brothel when the Mr. Sipos whom she loves and serves marries another. Discovering his wife unfaithful, Mr. Sipos says, "I mayn't have an automobile, but I have honor." He casts off the wife, retrieves Irma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...friend could. After the mob had revenged itself on Friend Turner, Mrs. Turner threatened court action. For that she was strung up by the heels, her clothes drenched with gasoline, wrapped in sudden flames. She was pregnant at the time. "Mister, you ought to've heard that nigger wench howl!" When the flames went out, a man stepped up with a knife and made sure her unborn child died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Judge Lynch | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

With each issue of the Cherokee Times, the issue of Scarlet Sister Mary will grow greater, for over and above the question of a black wench's "immorality," is the question of whether or not conditions on South Carolina plantations are as Mrs. Peterkin paints them, and above that comes the question of whether or not such conditions should be recognized and discussed. "If you know South Carolina," chuckled the Cherokee Times, "You may surmise that the storm will be more than a zephyr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scarlet in South Carolina | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Behrman (The Second Man) wrote the play. Jed Harris, the ill-shaven producer whose perhaps somewhat mercenary pride recently forbade him to present Ina Claire in The Gaoler's Wench, was inclined to think well of Serena. He ordered Robert Edmond Jones to design some sets and procured Ruth Gordon with her soft, broken voice and her abruptly delicate gestures to play the part of a lady who "possessed every imaginable charm of appearance and behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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