Word: wenches
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...knew nothing about his kneeling to "Little Otto" until it was all over. The rich Hungarians who had staked $2,000,000 on Albrecht's candidacy knew nothing. Grim Julius Gömbös was not in the secret. It appeared that Albrecht, running true to form as a decadent, wench-conscious Habsburg Archduke, had renounced his chances for the Throne?for a woman...
...Isabella's suave Majordomo scouted rumors that the Archduke Albrecht was thinking of marrying one Frau Kallay who was getting a divorce, broadly hinted that she would become his mistress. This of course would not have affected his candidacy?a King may look, and more than look, at a wench. But to her horror Archduchess Isabella discovered that her son was resolved to marry the woman, had set his heart on her as stubbornly as Franz Ferdinand fixed his on Sophie Chotek...
...Marie of Rumania once sent her Carol (then Crown prince) around the world to forget a wench. But as soon as he got home he picked her tip again, then forgot her and six years later picked another...
...tirelessly sought to raise) suddenly decided, last week, to fling themselves on the ground before the holy Nasik Temple and thus obstruct Lordly Brahmans from their worship. All India shuddered at reports that an Untouchable girl had slapped the face of a Brahman priest-far worse than a Negro wench's slapping a white bishop in Dixie. One hundred Untouchables were jailed...
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...