Sentence:  ...he wrote to me last week telling me about an incredible <WSD>bitch</WSD> of a row blazing there on account of someone having been and gone and produced an unofficial magazine called "Raddled", full of obscene libellous Oz-like filth. And what I though, what Sammy and I thought, was—why not? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Something unforgiving and unpleasant.