Word: brothels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firstly, I cannot see that there is anything essentially wicked or "immoral," much less "lecherous," "vicious," and "insidious," in tutoring Harvard students professionally, or in receiving such tutoring. A tutoring school is neither an "intellectual brothel" (CRIMSON, 1939), nor an "intellectual gas-chamber" (CRIMSON 1948). It is simply an agency where a student may learn in a short time such superficial facts as are at a premium in his examinations...
...said: "It does not matter that Comrade Krassikov has squandered party funds in a brothel, but it is scandalous that this should have disorganized the transportation of illegal literature...
...every scrap of conversation that fell from the nonstop mouth of Samuel Johnson. But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties." The man who rushed off to a brothel on hearing of his mother's death "was both cocksure and uncertain of himself; painfully self-searching yet comically self-deluded; a Tory in his beliefs and an anarchist in his behavior; unable to curb any of his physical cravings, yet capable of the stupendous discipline needed to complete...
Fairbanks is wide open. Gambling flourishes in back rooms. Nobody in Fairbanks was surprised at the arrival of an air express package marked simply: "One magnet, dice, and electrical attachments." Alaska still views the old-fashioned brothel with sympathetic tolerance. Fairbanks authorities have sternly resisted attempts to close down blonde Big Babe, and the rest of the girls who keep open house along the "line." Alaskan liquor stores sell a clear, malevolent fluid called Spirits of Peoria, a 190-proof potion calculated to make the mildest man click his heels and bay like a malemute...
Died. Anna Sage (real name: Ana Cumpanas), 58, the "woman in red" who 13 years ago pointed out Public Enemy John Dillinger to FBI men, who thereupon shot him dead; of a liver ailment; in Timisoara, Rumania, where she was deported in 1936 for running a Gary, Ind. brothel...