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...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...
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...
...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...