Word: brothels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group called themselves the Suquet Sporting & Debating Society (after a deteriorated onetime brothel that preceded Siena), spent their time visiting museums, churches, antiquarian stores, local bars. Though forbidden to go beyond the city limits, Timesman Herbert Matthews and A.P.'s Dick Massock sometimes bicycled as far as 15 miles outside town. "In Italy," says Matthews, "no laws are obeyed, least of all by the Italians." Soberest of the lot, Correspondent Matthews read Gibbons Decline & Fall, worked on a book on Italian Fascism...
...incident opened on May 1 when the pro-New Deal Post published a first installment based on the affidavit of one Gustave Beekman, convicted proprietor of a Brooklyn male brothel where "Senator X" was alleged to have met sailors. For illustration, the Post ran a front-face silhouette of the Senator's head with the features washed...
...Women, both Asiatic and European, were raped and murdered. . . . One entire Chinese district was declared a brothel regardless of the status of its inhabitants...
Normally a quiet town of 56.165, Natal is crowded and a-boom. Its hospital is a dormitory for the airport builders; its hotel overflows with engineers, ferry pilots, tractor drivers, Axis spies. Two U.S. bulldozer operators took rooms in a high-class brothel, although they do not like the food. Eventually Pan Am hopes to build a hotel near its field, eleven bumpy miles from town...
...Paris, empty of purse and broken in health. An old friend got him a job in a school where the food was scanty, his room an unheated garret. No longer free, he could no longer endure solitude. In the end he was horribly captured by a crazy old brothel madam who conceived for him a pure, discarnate love, and he died a clinically brutal death...