Word: womanizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Susan Wall, 69, stood accused of killing a woman because of a grudge. The prosecution was confident of its case, and had a star witness who had driven Miss Wall to the victim's home shortly before the killing. But last week, after a day and a half had been spent selecting the jury, Miss Wall's lawyer broke into the proceedings to ask for a conference in chambers. There he told the flabbergasted judge that his client had married the prosecution's key witness; he could therefore not testify against her. Fumed the judge: "This...
...caused by a bullet fired from a gun by Mrs. Legg. What's more, they told a Texas jury, she had been charged with murder and was awaiting trial. Mrs. Legg said it was indeed an accident. She had surprised her husband in bed with another woman, she said. She started firing her pistol only to scare the woman, and her husband "accidentally" got in the way of a bullet. Therefore an accident; therefore double indemnity. The jury agreed. The case has been appealed, but if the award is upheld she will get the money even...
...driver he quotes St. Thomas Aquinas' stern dictum on carelessness: "He who allows certain events to happen which result in homicide by imprudence becomes guilty in a certain manner of premeditated homicide." The author even invokes the moral logic of Matthew 5: 28-"Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart"-as making traffic violations sinful even if no smashup results. For example, contends Renard, "the motorist who gets ready to pass another without having verified whether he can do so without danger, and who does not do so because...
...source of the book's vitality is its language-supple and colloquial, yet framed in the syntax of surprise. The syncopated speech patterns constantly shift away from familiar formulations. In An Interest in Life, a deserted mother observes: a woman "gets fatter, she gets older, she could lie down, nuzzling a regiment of men and little kids, or she could just die of the pleasure. But men are different, they have to own money, men must do well in the world. I know that men are not fooled by being happy...
This language is the medium through which Grace Paley builds personality. It provides a salty, descriptive surface for otherwise callow characters such as the novice nymphet in bed with a soldier in A Woman, Young and Old, or the gay but rusting blade of The Contest who thinks he can do without marriage. For the book's best and most typical characters-spunky, passionate women, abandoned by men and saddled with children and poverty-life is a form of coping with the mysteries of love and loneliness...