Word: wenching
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...Wild West. In Portales, N.Mex., the Daily News ran an advertisement for the Bud & Cliff Wrecking Yard: "We do wench work anywhere...
Hard, Fast and Beautiful (Filmakers; RKO Radio), a title that conjures up visions of a wanton wench on the marquee, turns out to apply to nothing more alluring than a tennis ball. The heroine (Sally Forrest) is a teen-aged tennis virtuoso whose selfish, frustrated mother (Claire Trevor) exploits the girl's talent to wangle a life of ease, travel and glamour...
Although the college is rated highly academic-wise, social activities are there for those who want them. The answer one Waban wench gave to the age old question, "Who Wellesley?" seems to sal the tone. Stretching her arms up to the sun, she looked coyly out of the comes of one eye, and demanded, "Well, why the hell...
...never cold-shoulders a villain's challenge, never flinches in his dedicated task: foiling a 16th Century Bourbon plot against the Valois crown. He rides up & down the countryside, carrying messages and giving chase to enemy agents, almost loses his life when he falls for a comely English wench over from London to spy on King Francis (her eyes "expressed a contradiction of emotion: gaiety and daring, with an undercurrent of sadness"). But when the rebel trap is sprung, Blaise bares his steel and redeems himself, shoulder to shoulder with the king...
Some sturdy old farmers belittled the whole affair-"bitch witches" sneered one; "get her a man and the wench'll settle down," laughed another. Oddly enough, those who had expressed their skepticism were among the next to be accused. Named among the new witches were John Procter, who had cured his maid's fits by plumping her down at a spinning wheel and threatening a thrashing if she stirred from it, and Martha Cory, a hearty matron who had rashly asserted she didn't believe in witches. ("Look!" screamed one of the girls at church service, "there...