Word: wenching
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THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED ?The vineyards and the sunshine of California robbed of their sweetness and their light by a wayward wench from San Francisco who marries the master of the vineyard by mail...
Madonna of the Streets. Nazimova is the wicked wench who gets religion in the last reel. She is still a good actress, individualistic, still Nazimova. Limehouse is the locale. Into its smoky dens and muddy passages comes the Rev. John Morton to found a mission. He inherits a million pounds and the girl marries him to help distribute it. When he distributes it to the poor instead of to her, she displays irritation. Back to the streets he hurls her. By this time she finds she loves him and not his money and crawls back to his chapel dying. Opportunity...
...damn-what-I-say type, and for this very reason her letters have for many years been invaluable to historians. In a letter to the Duchess of Hanover she says: "You may be sure that I am very much annoyed with the King for treating me like a serving wench. That would have been all right for his precious Maintenon.* She was born for that sort of treatment but I was not." Most people found it dangerous to write of their Sovereign in such terms even in private letters, which were always liable to be opened by the notorious Louvois...
...Katherine Cornell plays the heroine under the Jane Austen name of Shirley Pride. But Shirley is not at all a Jane Austen character. Her manly foster brother, played by Tom Nesbitt, has played fast and loose with some one else's bonds for the sake of a little spitfire wench. Shirley, in love with foster brother, purchases the evidence of his guilt from a salacious clerk at the price of her precious jewel of virtue...
Bassoon-Wm. Wench...