Word: bawds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collette Marchand, as a warped bawd from the slums, is Lautree's first love. She plays the temperamental procuress with gratifying relish. Wonderfully French, Zsa Zsa Gabor sings and twitters her way through the role of Jane Avril, the toast of the Moulin Rouge. And Suzanne Flon, the woman who loves embittered Lautrec too late, is sadly appealing as one of the few unkept women in Paris...
...annual Handbook of Private Schools; after an operation; in Boston. In his hit-or-miss way, he denounced snobbery, prudishness, convention, academism, alumni influence, regimentation, kept his scholastic audience-"scared prostitutes, pimps and panderers" -always amused, often edified. He thought Alma Mater in general was a "flatulent old bawd," said of his own in particular: "Harvard practically ruined...
...famous men, scholars have turned up some lively bits of unexpected history. They have exposed a host of literary forgeries, revealed that Poet William Wordsworth fathered an illegitimate daughter during a stay in France in 1792,* established that Poet Christopher Marlowe was not killed in a row over a bawd (as Puritans told the story), but over who should pay a tavern check†. One of the most impressively persistent investigations of all was the case of old Sir Thomas Malory, a job that challenged two generations of tracers of lost literary persons...