Word: bordello
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...solitary childhood writing poetry and tinkling at the piano. He attended a military school and, before he was 19, fought with Pancho Villa. Mustered out, he went to Mexico City and began his musical career as a whorehouse pianist. Today many of his songs reveal an intimate knowledge of bordello sentiment. Another permanent acquisition was a deep knife gash running upward from the left corner of his mouth. After witnessing a shooting affair which left one woman dead and several wounded, Lara decided to move up the social scale...
...sensitive, moral dimwit who climbs, tooth & nail, from social dereliction (a childhood among swamp Negroes) to the throat-cutting peak of local business and society (a timber firm of his own, a blueblood marriage). Then he goes back again. On the way up, he has an affair with a bordello keeper (part real, part Hollywood) and a fascinating raftsman's apprenticeship to a gigantic veteran of the rivers. He is the center, also, of some superb fights, crooked and raw deals, and river adventures...
...Last Time I Saw Paris is a loving, microscopic peep at the infusorial life of the block-long rue de la Huchette (just off the boul' Mich'), Author Paul's lost hedonistic heaven. Its hotels, bars, bordello and habitues exhale for him the garlicky breath of the real France−"the France one prefers to remember." Mostly they stagger between the tough tenderness of a Daumier cartoon and William Locke's The Beloved Vagabond. They also suggest a reason for France's fall...
...kill flies. In most camps the soldiers did not think it necessary to dig latrines. Said one bored volunteer, eying the national capital: "Hardly worth defending, except for the éclat of the thing." On payday hell broke loose. Some Zouaves, refused admittance to Julia Deane's bordello, fired pistols at Inmate Nelly Mathews, "who pluckily returned their fire...
...producer) is notable for being the first play to emerge from the sub-professional Federal Theatre as a regular Broadway production. There its distinction ends, for in spite or because of extensive revision by Director Antoinette Perry (Strictly Dishonorable) and her daughter Margaret's determined impersonation of a bordello's ex-cashier who gets a pretentious politician's family in and out of several difficulties, the show struck most critics as being stereotyped, strained, spurious...