Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Cokes, a country squire, comes up to London to the fair, to get his marriage license, attended by Waspe, his testy guardian, who calls for the license at John Littlewit's. Mrs. Littlewit conceives a violent craving for roast pig, and Dame Purecraft, her mother, and Rabbi Zeal-of-the...
The funniest thing in the paper, however, is the evidence of the desire to be considered "wicked," presented in the seeming suppression of a drawing under the black ink smudge on the front page. This illustration is peculiarly fetching when seen on a news stand, and is such a satisfactory...