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Alighting from her limousine Queen Mary climbed the stoop, pressed the bell. She waited some time, for a new, slow and surly Cockney wench had just been taken into service by the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monniker | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Bessie Cudlip facilitated his courtship of Miss Fosdick by dying (on the same day as Miss Spragg), and leaving him her money. For she, a hearty wench from the "Pot and Pie," had picked up Mr. Winnery, Sr., in Brighton, honeymooned with him in Paris, that glorified Brighton, and lavished money since his death on church-sociables and Sunday School picnics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Juxtaposition | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...that. Likening the lives of showfolk to "April days blended of sun and showers," Mr. Ziegfeld brings Author McEvoy to task for letting his version of Broadway make such unadulterated whoopee. However, reviewer praises author as "a lusty fellow" who "writes with gusto" of Dixie Dugan "the hottest little wench that ever shook a scanty at a tired business man." Other characters are Dixie's devoted greeting card salesman-"a sweet boy, but he's so full of sediments;" her Argentine gaga, passionate Alvarez Romano; her sugar daddy, high-powered banker; her ghost writer on the Evening Tabloid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Make Whoopee | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...after day the 3,000 constantly changing auditors have sat breathless under the spell of Krylenko, as he brought son to implicate father, blandished brother into betraying brother, and lashed an old technician who was accused of accomplishing the death of his housemaid until the wench suddenly turned up last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Shahkta | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Rachele Guidi Mussolini once served as a lusty taproom wench at the rustic inn of good Papa Allesandro Mussolini, sire of Benito. Wise Papa Allesandro warned the wench against his son. "Do not let yourself think of that young man," he is said to have said, "It would be better to throw yourself under a train. Married to him you will have neither happiness nor peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictators' Wives | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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