Word: wenching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lights of Butte, Mont., when seen from the Continental Divide, have a strange, haunting beauty. But in the daytime Butte is anything but beautiful to look at-"by dark a diamond set in jet, but by day ... an uncorseted wench dissipated from the night before." Last week Butte (pop. 37,000) had a book all to itself. The book (Copper Camp; Hastings House; $2.75) is the latest of the series compiled by the late Federal Writers' Project...
...philanthropic spinster attempting to educate Welsh miners and her discovery of a man of great talent among them hardly makes a sufficiently interesting plot even though the author, Emlyn Williams, has added many complications along the road to education. The wiles of a bottle of rum and a serving wench are almost enough to put an end to the spinster's hopes but she finally is successful in getting the brilliant miner a scholarship to Oxford. The situation, obviously not very exciting, is not helped by numerous inconsistencies in the writing. Parts of it are excellent, particularly those between...
...though weak in itself provides an excellent vehicle for Ethel Barrymore and a fine company of actors. Miss Barrymore plays the role of the spinster with great technique and feeling as well as a fine sense of comedy. Richard Waring as the student and Thelma Schnee as the serving wench share the honors with Miss Barrymore, while the lesser parts are all finely played, particularly that of the local squire. It is a case of excellent acting making a fine play out of a good one. And best of all, it brings to Boston Ethel Barrymore, whose integrity...
Elizabeth Canning, a virtuous serving wench, vanished into the labyrinthine London night on New Year's, 1753. Four weeks later she reappeared, bloodstained, gaunt with hunger, clad in rags. Before Magistrate Henry Fielding she told a tale which might have been sliced from his own Tom Jones. She claimed that she was seized by two ruffians, robbed, dragged to a bawdyhouse where a gypsy hag with a nightmare face ripped her stays (value: 10/) from her, locked her up in the loft. There Elizabeth languished until she escaped through a boarded window. The gypsy crone was tried before...
...wanton wench was Cleopatra but a politician whose love of Egypt was greater than the love she bartered with lonely Roman warriors. How long she and Mark Antony lingered in Paraetonium (now Mersa Matruh) history has forgotten. The city crackled in the sun, crumbled into decay, remained virtually forgotten some 2,000 years until last week another Roman warrior sought to enter its now squalid streets. He was Marshal Rodolfo Graziani...