Word: wretched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chatting gaily about people and occurrences at home which are very interesting and amusing. As she talks Vag looks at her closely. Can this be the little girl he used to go to Sunday School with? And blush with at dancing class? Surety this isn't the same little wretch whose--yes, whose bloomers used to droop so sadly years ago? But it is. She has certainly improved. Vag admits, so on the way out he buys her a huge chrysanthemum. Then, into the Charger--crank, crank. And off to Cambridge--clank, clank. Vag glows. Even the Charger seems less...
...bench and became Chief Justice, but not for long. U. S. Senator David Colbreth Broderick was head of the Democratic Party's Abolitionist wing in the State, and Chief Justice Terry was for the South and slavery. The Senator called the Chief Justice a crook and miserable wretch, so Terry stepped down from the bench to fight a duel. Jittery Broderick put his bullet in the ground; Terry put his through Broderick's breast. A jury acquitted him of murder, but he was still struggling to rebuild his Stockton law practice when the Civil War broke out. Wounded...
...Press - "just like in America." In his summing up Justice Singleton told the jury that the Crown had built up and fitted together "the strongest case possible on circumstantial evidence." The verdict of guilty was a blow to Britain's outstanding criminal lawyer, Norman Birkett, K.C. Finally, the wretch found guilty in "Britain's Goriest Murder Case" was a particularly good example of the risks run by overeducating in Britain Indian subjects of the Emperor...
...amorous buffoon and gossip" of the Diaries, but a busy little executive, years ahead of his easy-going times, appears from Author Bryant's pages. At 36 Pepys may have felt that the death of his wife, "poor wretch," had closed the most important chapter in his life, but in fact his career was just beginning. Partly to forget his grief and partly because his enemies were trying to discredit his administration of the Navy Office. Pepys threw himself wholeheartedly into his job. He became a walking encyclopedia of Navy affairs, was able to confound almost single-handed...
...broke with his mistress, took his wife and family abroad on a slow and unfashionable boat, settled them in the French countryside, in a house that had sentimental associations for him. But his wife, poor wretch, didn't like it; his sons didn't like their English school. She took them home and got a divorce. Meantime Tom's mistress was going haywire and ruining a good chance in Hollywood because he had cast her off. Tom, feeling pretty much put upon by these events, got all broody and drunk. Luckily for Tom's peace...