Word: bawds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alma Mater, the great American goddess-flatulent old bawd...
...Eccentric families have become common as dirt on the stage. The family in The Primrose Path is not only screwy but scandalous. Overflowing a ramshackle homestead, the Wallaces, except for one unsociable white sheep who insists on being respectable, are a cheerfully depraved clan. Grandma is a gamy old bawd, who in her day plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like a trooper, lines up at the starting post of womanhood ready to outrun...
...same wife; the French magistrate could not tell who was lying, appealed to the woman, who would say nothing. Finally he told them to go home, think about it, agree, come back in a week. They never reappeared; he found later the two men had sold the.woman to a bawd, divided the money. The magistrate decided that "here was a solution that no Westerner would ever have thought...