Word: wenches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...little man in any accent. Eva Le Gallienne, contrasting the prevailing brogue with a gaudy, if inaccurate, French accent, had most of the good lines and used them all for at least five rounds of applause. June Duprez, as the "woman who always knows" is not as plain a wench as Barrie called for, and considerably less crafty. The business of personal appearance seems to impose something of a strain on her, and it might be well for her to return to filmland where she scored admirably in "None But the Lonely Heart" and "And Then There Were None...
...Netta spurns his advances, George provides the reader with some pleasant food for bedtime though by drowning her while she gambols in the evening bath. The late Laird Cregar, Twentieth-Century Fox's discerning choice for Bone, was forced by a more puritan plot to strangle a fully-dressed wench with a strip of drapery...
...success was terrific. "The new wench. By Jesus, but she's handsome!" cried the gallants. Guards Captain Rex Morgan was bowled over. "I'm fretting my bowels to fiddle-strings over you," he moaned. Amber "felt herself sliding toward surrender and had no inclination to stop." Captain Morgan rented rooms...
...following article in written for those confused intellectuals who do not know whether to marry Mildred, the girl they met at the Officers' Club last Saturday night, or Sharlene, the lithesome wench from the Hasty Pudding...
...should anyone from there be happy about it? Natives from the "World's Richest Hill" have a good reason to be damn good and mad at the editors of TIME for the disparaging remarks cast upon their fair city when you referred to it as a wench, dissipated and uncorseted. Either term used singularly and in the mildest sense surely borders on infamy...