"But trouble started with the inordinate boasting of heroes' wives who taunted their less fortunate sisters with particularly nasty remarks such as: 'Chicks and chickies, that's what you are'...The situation was not improved by mortified rejects who roamed the night, serenading heroes' wives with suggestive reflections on empty beds and the like...which led to immediate acts of reprisal, the heroes' wives arming themselves with their late husbands' weapons and assaulting their detractors in public." Fr. "A Far-Out Book: The Hero Maker"(1959) by Akbar del Piombo