Word: brothel
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...carefully reduced Gullen to poverty as a prelude to tempting it; and her revenge seems directed almost as much on the town that witnessed her shame as on the man who caused it. "The world," she cries, "made me into a whore. Now I make the world into a brothel...
...doughty little woman with tinted grey-blue hair has finally destroyed a venerable Italian institution: the state-supervised brothel. Angelina Merlin, 68, is Italy's only woman Senator. For ten years she has been nagging Italy's legislators to do the right thing. Last week the Chamber of Deputies ran out of delaying tactics, and by a vote of 385 to 115 ordered that all houses of prostitution (which have been paying a 3% tax on income to the state) be closed within six months, and that their 4,000 girls serving 30,000 clients daily...
...influence on his brother during these apprentice years. He does report having arranged the order of the poems in Chamber Music and suggested the title. This gives the lie to Gogarty, who claimed that Joyce was inspired by the tinkle of a night pot in a brothel. For Joyce, the incomparable word-distiller, the charm doubtless rested in the title's double meaning...
...Your account of Wheeler's trip to Tokyo -"I am thinking of being circumcised as a health measure" and that he stopped off at a brothel-can hardly be anything but poor taste. If you have no regard for family and friends back home, at least don't make us cringe...
...Shortt pleaded, even offered to pay for the haircut (25?). At length Wheeler consented, went off to Tokyo, returned-unshorn. He explained gravely to Shortt that he had only visited a hospital ("I am thinking of being circumcised-as a health measure"). He had also stopped off at a brothel...