Word: bordello
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...thing about fences; folks used to say that he would put up a $4,000 enclosure to fence in a $2,000 pasture. And then there was "Uncle Fred" (Alfred Victor du Pont II), who in 1893 was shot to death by an overwrought woman in a Louisville bordello...
Bible readings were Saratoga's biggest thrill when "Old Smoke" Morrissey hit town in 1861. But not for long. Gambler, dandy, ex-bordello bouncer, heavyweight boxing champion (and later a U.S. Congressman), Morrissey opened Saratoga's first race track, spent $190,000 building his Club House into one of the most enticing gambling mousetraps in the Western Hemisphere. Practically overnight, high livers from around the world began beating a path to Old Smoke's door...
...turned the island into a bordello, a dump and a gambling casino for over half a century; but it was Dr. bearded maniac who imposed an anti-American character on that pure little revolution...
...night passes without the rattle of gunfire and the sounds of death from the other side. To West Berliners, the Wall is a calendar: they will recall a date by saying, "It happened the month before the Wall." It is a direction finder: strangers in search of a Gartenstrasse bordello are told to follow the Wall until they see the wooden screens that the Communist border guards put up to end East-West flirtation...
Died. Polly (real name: Pearl) Adler, 62, longtime (1920-45) Manhattan madam whose garish parlors were a house away from home for those who found the scarlet parrot on her business card an invitation to expensive pleasure; of cancer; in a Hollywood hospital. At Polly's midtown bordello, amid Louis XVI, Egyptian and Chinese furnishings, and a Gobelin tapestry of Vulcan and Venus "having a tender moment," Racketeer Dutch Schultz took his ease, barking orders to henchmen from under a silken canopy, while in nearby rooms Social Registered patrons reveled, and off-duty cops romped. In retirement, tiny...