Word: bordello
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...same area as a proving ground during World War II. To Japan's anti-American left-wing Socialists and Communists, however, the opening of the new range seemed an ideal opportunity to dramatize Japanese opposition to U.S. military bases. Agitators poured into the village, harping on the bordello shantytowns that had sprung up around other U.S. bases and the horrid fate that Uchinada's women could expect to suffer at the hands of the G.I.s. Soon sweating demonstrators, their heads wrapped in towels to indicate do-or-die determination, were marching along the fence, carrying signs which said...
...Manhattan producers announced that they will soon try the onerous feat of bringing a lusty chunk of the stream of consciousness of Author James Joyce to Broadway. Their dramatic selection: the "Nighttown" portion of Joyce's phantasmagoric Ulysses, covering three hours in a Dublin bordello, most of it originally set down by Joyce in playscript form. Hard to read, harder to act, impossible to stage with its own wild flavor intact because of obvious censorship obstacles, "Nighttown" is bound to keep playgoers consulting not only programs but probably interpretive texts carried into the theater by the bushel and read...
...young Prince Louis-Joseph, fought as a cavalry officer in the Seven Years' War. At 23, he docilely married the daughter of a rich, petty aristocrat in a ceremony attended by King Louis XV and his Queen. Five months later he was arrested in a local bordello, and convicted of "outrageous debauchery," by a regime that considered ordinary debauchery routine. King Louis XV himself ordered him to prison and accorded no special privileges...
...Delphic queries: "Are the Life-Gods and the Fate-Gods willing?" Hilda is willing, and there is scarcely a dull moment spent with the count as he 1) sees his first roller-skating show wrecked by a storm, 2) witnesses a local bigwig being shot to death by a bordello madam, 3) two-times Hilda with a carnival doxy billed as ''Phazma the Phlame Girl." 4) has his second roller-skating show filched by a double-crossing partner, 5) goes back to the sea with visions of greater roller rinks. Obviously, Author Sancton, 41, a New Orleans newspaper...
...hundred dainty girls, devoid of makeup and dressed demurely in ivory-colored robes, sat in a compound of Saigon's infamous Palace of Mirrors one day last week for a most unusual ceremony. The famous old bordello, once the headquarters of the most renowned madams and prostitutes in Asia, had been stripped of its mirrors and packed with desks and household equipment. From the front row of the crowd 27 girls made their way to the platform and received certificates of efficiency and good behavior from the Ministry of Health. "We thank the government," said one in a singsong...