Word: brothels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's Alden Hotel, does his work out of town, at West Point. He has applied for U.S. citizenship; has a draft number. In his pocket he carries a crystal rosary, wrapped in a lace handkerchief. It was given to him by the proprietress of a Nancy brothel who hid him from the Germans for three days...
...write 2,000 words on "The Virtue of Walking." Wrote the local priest: "Naturally, the pinnacle of achievement would have been the conversion of the woman ... as the result of our young apostle's visitation! But alas! She has gone into partnership with another madam and opened a brothel in Barcelona, which I grieve to report is flourishing...
...girdled by a ruinous wall, but it has its two-story hotels with shower baths and roaches, and is proud of its hideous castellated palace. There are grubby plots of decaying vegetation and gardens with flowering fences of euphorbia and brilliantly colored birds. Its tedj houses, half saloon, half brothel, are marked over the doorway with a traditional red cross - which caused some mis understanding when a Red Cross medical unit made its first appearance in town...
...sings neither well nor ill. Let specialists define her talent. The important thing is that she sings as a torch burns. She is alternately the geranium of the suburbs, the scar of crime, the lantern of the brothel and the whistle of the police. "Cocteau...
...Crump continued to let Memphis go its primrose way. Memphis was sinful, all right, but it was never loud and raw about it. Memphis was the kind of town where the rich, old Second Presbyterian Church could transact its godly business within bottle's throw of a brothel, a saloon, a gambling joint and the Negroes' steamy Beale Street...