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With sausage suitcase, easel and the iron-tipped cane that he bitterly called "my buttonhook," 'Ennry would frequently move into a brothel, stay there several months, painting most of the time. In the mid-90s 'Ennry began to drink seriously. A great artist but no gourmet, he liked to swig a mixture of Scotch whiskey, rum, absinthe and cheap brandy. Paris dandies of his day frequently carried sword canes; the Vicomte de Toulouse-Lautrec's cane held liquor. In 1899 he was confined in a sanatorium as an alcoholic, was led out in the company...
...groundwork for his drive, Editor Mabley, a 22-year-old Beta Theta Pi, assigned reporters to cover eight Champaign vice resorts. They interviewed inmates, photographed a brothel façade with the madame in the doorway, a college student "planted" on the porch. Fortnight ago the Illini opened its pack of revelations, drew forth these...
Last week, halfway through its crusade the uninhibited Illini had so alarmed U. of I. President Arthur Cutts Willard that he jumped into a huddle with city officials, emerged with a warning that any student nabbed in a brothel would be expelled summarily. Said President Willard: "I don't believe conditions here are general among the University's 14,000 students. But we intend to put an end to them...
Exiled at 15 because he knocked down a policeman while defending the Young Master in a brothel, Ivan got along fine in Siberia until he drove a corkscrew through the commandant's neck for making improper advances to him. At a fugitives' hideout he was petted by a beautiful Swedish girl named Hilda who lectured: "You are strange, you Russians. Your eyes are clear and clean, and your minds are clean though not clear, but your tongue is a pigsty of foulness." To which Ivan replied : "We are sons of pigs; a pig was my nurse." When...
...News of the Archduke's assassination at Serajevo and the even more upsetting death of the proprietor break up a normally jolly evening in a Viennese brothel...