Word: wenching
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...keep her independence. But they went off on scientific investigations together and had a high old time by the way. From Serena's children (a not very attractive crowd), from Serena herself. Redfield gradually came to the terrible conclusion that she was just a scheming, selfish, salacious old wench. The End of Desire, Author Herrick's 23rd pedestrian book, is serious, well-meant, may point out to middle-aged adolescents some pitfalls of the dangerous age but will not advance the cause of U. S. letters very much...
...generally sensible efforts to extricate themselves. The wife is eventually generous enough to give the husband a divorce. He, still troubled by a case of indecision, wanders about in the snow at night, making up his mind which way to go. The mistress, who is not a designing wench but a loyal devotee, observes his quandary, thinks to solve it. by taking poison. Poison fails to kill her. The last reel shows Clive Brook at home again, solemnly celebrating Christmas with his wife and children. Adapted from Ernest Pascal's novel and play The Marriage Bed, the picture adds...
...distinction: "Chink," "Mick." "Wop." "Dago," "Nigger." and "wench" are words invented by Anglo-Saxons for derisive application to non-Anglo-Saxons. But Anglo-Saxons learned from Indians to call Indian women "squaws." Squaw is the Narragansett (and Algonquin) Indian word meaning "a female" just as sannnp means a male Indian, a brave. TIME will continue using "squaw." with no derision intended or conveyed...
...wench already on the Dole who reports (as she must) at a State Employment Exchange, is told that a lady wants a cook, says to the lady, "I'm a good cook m'am, but you won't mind if I break dishes? I'm that clumsy!" She stays on the Dole...
Unnerved by the prisoner's mild but fluttery behavior, several women whom he had stabbed and left for dead but who turned up as witnesses at the trial had hysterics, screamed, fainted in the court. But no less calm than the prisoner was one stolid, buxom peasant wench. She told how Kuerten had got her down, pierced her 30 times with a dagger "until the blade broke...