Word: bawd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dalliance went on belowstairs that Hack Writer Daniel Defoe found the maids fair game. Nothing is more common, he wrote, "than to find these creatures one week in a good family and the next in a brothel. This amphibious life makes 'em fit for neither, for if the bawd use them ill, away they trip to service and if their mistress gives 'em a wry word, whip they're at a bawdyhouse again, so that in effect they neither make good whores nor good servants...
...floozy with a heart of gold, but this time the yarn has a new kink in it: miscegenation. The twain meet in Hong Kong, and pretty soon the hero (William Holden) is so crazy about the whoroine (Nancy Kwan) that he cannot tell the difference between good and bawd, white and Wong. Race prejudice and convention pothole the road to romance, but the lovers ride out the bumps...