Word: wenching
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...previous work, and his audacity in bracketing himself with the late great Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, reviewers settled in their seats at Paradise Lost ready for almost anything. When they rose after the final curtain, none could deny that plenty had happened. Ben Gordon, an Olympic runner, marries a wench who betrays him, gets shot in a holdup. His brother Julie takes three acts to die of sleeping sickness. His sister...
...meet Mr. Selden, accompanied by a pretty wench, who did look at me very pleasingly as if to say sometime je desire basier vous but being with my friend I had to forego the pleasure of doing the trick even there and then and took to talking of Mr. Selden's essays instead; which also are very good...
Achilles Had a Heel (by Martin Flavin: Walter Hampden, producer) is a distressing piece of mumbo-jumbo showing Tragedian Hampden as a Negro elephant-keeper in a zoo. Mr. Hampden and the invisible elephant love each other for being big. strong, noble. When a high-yellow wench, urged on by a jealous monkey-keeper, saps Mr. Hampden's integrity, the elephant, outraged, knocks his friend down with a blast of dusty air. The monkey-keeper gets the elephant job. makes a mistake, is promptly killed...
...just before they sail for France, he goes into a rage. The result of this "out there" is a dangerous assignment for Alan, from which he fails to return. When Gerald gets back to England, he learns that the girl with whom Alan spent the night was no ordinary wench but Kitty, in person, being gallantly informal. On the basis of remorse for this misunderstanding, Kitty and Gerald, both believing Alan dead, prepare to marry...
Fifteen pictures and a group of preliminary drawings were on view, all grouped under the generic title of "Feminanities." Typical was one called Hope Springs Eternal. In a department-store basement a group of bedraggled female shoppers, including a spectacled schoolteacher, a colored wench and a draggled woman in a raincoat and hangdog stockings, are standing around a counter at which a pert blonde shopgirl is demonstrating some kind of face cream...