Word: wenching
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...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...
...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...