Word: bordellos
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...stories of significant trivia drew more mail recently than anything we have printed in some time. It was the story of Lucy Hicks, leading cook, confidante, philanthropist, and bordello-boss of Oxnard, Calif. The sharp eye of one of our editors found the bones of the story tucked obscurely away in a Pacific Coast paper. As TIME told it fully for the first time, Lucy, after 30 years, to the astonishment and embarrassment of her fellow townsmen, was found to be a man. "Her" supreme accolade probably came from the TIME subscribers who nominated "her" for TIME...
...million francs ($20,000) to call off her crusade. She spurned it, publicly. It was predicted that licensed prostitutes would merely be chased to the streets, already dangerously crowded by some 8,000 unregistered streetwalkers. There was even an attempt to dismiss the crusade with a wisecrack. Leered one bordello operator: "We are honorable merchants. . . . We are left with but one alternative-to take to the maquis...
Cape, Strut & Whiskers. Then came Paris. The Idahoan with the glittering eye and the positive manner ranged magnificently from salon to bordello, flaunting his cape and stick and Byronic collars, spitting critical fire, pinching the ladies and wagging his fierce red whiskers. He grew as famous as his neighbors, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. By the time he was 40 he had written 31 books. The stream of poetry, prose and French and Chinese translations swelled to a torrent. Then, the early '30s, Ezra Pound stepped abruptly out of his field...
...soldiers' bordello in the heart of Oslo's streamlined business section slipped four Paris trulls. Well-bribed German sentries let them pass. Members of the underground guided them on their four-night walk to Sweden. In Stockholm last week, over their first good meal in nearly a year, chunky, raucous Suzette and waspish, salty Marianne told the four girls' story...
Early to Bed (music by Thomas ("Fats") Waller; book & lyrics by George Marion Jr.; produced by Richard Kollmar) reached Broadway last week after tangling with censorship in Boston, where the show's locale was hastily changed from a Martinique bordello to a gambling casino. In Manhattan the producer decided to gamble on the bordello. Without it - since the point of the story is that Madame Rowena's establishment is mis taken for a girl's school - the plot could hardly have unwound, which might have been a very good thing. For, without letup, the book grinds...