Word: bawd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was enough for the posse. Despite a boarder's insistence that he and his wife had slept in the loft for weeks, Mary Squires, Mother Wells and all the household were carted off to jail. "The Bawd of Enfield" was branded on the thumb and let go, but Mary Squires was tried for her ten-shilling theft (of the stays) at the Old Bailey before Sir Crisp Gascoyne, Lord Mayor of London...
Died. Belle Breazing, about 82, famed Kentucky bawd; in Lexington, Ky. Her plushy, luxuriant salon, famed for its influential patrons and for being the most orderly of disorderly houses, was closed by the U. S. Army in 1917, when Camp Stanley was set up on the outskirts of Lexington. Day after Miss Breazing's death, the Lexington Herald ran her obit on the front page. All copies were sold by 10 a.m., brought private speculators $1 apiece, provoked many a caustic phone call (Sample: "Is it true that to get on the front page of the Herald one must...