Word: griselda
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...poor patient Griselda is cruelly tried and her reaction to her grievances too spiritless to be pleasing even to the medieval ear. She swears obedience to the husband who has promised the death of her first born son and daughter...
This morning at nine Professor Robinson will continue the reading of "The Clerke's Tale"--the tale of patient Griselda--in Emerson A. The Vagabond will be there because he has discovered the delight of Geoffrey Chaucer--and because he has also discovered the most beautiful reading voice in Harvard University...
...recall one example of his quick, caustic wit very vividly. A handsome young socialite, member of the crew and of Hasty Pudding, was interpreting patient Griselda's obedient remarks...
...children and children-in-law found plenty of trouble to keep themselves busy. Darling Jill was most promiscuous: she seduced her brother-in-law Will and the albino, between whiles teased her potbellied suitor Pluto nearly frantic. Will and Buck's quarrel over Buck's wife, Griselda. was settled when company police shot Will as a labor agitator. Buck soothed his itching trigger-finger when another brother came after Griselda; then he went up the hill to shoot himself. As soon as the excitement was over Ty Ty went on digging for gold...
Whoever wrote this book (and it must have been a woman) is capable of endowing synthetic images with all the tangibility of unsatisfactory reality. The senile Earl, convinced that she is some patrician Griselda of fifty years ago, takes her into the ancient garden and loads her with roses; and the barmaid's grand-daughter feeling the aristocratic half of her ancestry partakes momentarily in all the slim, high haughtiness that must have been Griselda's. At the other end of the scale stands Miss Tiverton's black cat, sleek and scornful the most satisfactory cat since Dick Whittington...