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...Republic, by her determination to lead Naples in a holy war against France. She was encouraged in this suicidal plan by the English, particularly by Lady Hamilton, wife of the English Ambassador, Nelson's mistress, a huge, handsome, hearty woman who had been picked up in a London brothel only a few years before. It was commonly believed that Lady Hamilton's influence over the Queen was the result of a perverse relationship. The court was one of the most corrupt in Europe. Yet revolutionists like Fernando did little more than repeat scandals about the nobles, fearing...
...fairly conventional evening dress. In New Haven, Yale copy-catted to no effect. But in Rochester, N. Y. the undergraduates staged a real riot. Chicago was insulted when Oscar made withering remarks about their water tower. In St. Louis the audience was impolite. In Denver up-to-date brothel-keepers showed their awareness of his approach by redecorating their cribs in pre-Raphaelite style, while the girls amazed their miner customers by screaming "Ut-terly utter!" Leadville, Colo, tried to frighten Oscar off with threatening letters, but nothing happened to him when he went there. When Griggsville, Kans. wired...
...gangster's fabulous career. A small-time tough who operated an East Side poolroom in Manhattan before the War, Torrio rose to be a rugged member of Brooklyn's notorious Five Points Gang. His fame spread to James ("Big Jim") Colosimo, then Chicago's No. 1 brothel operator. He hired Torrio as head triggerman shortly after the War. Torrio's marksmanship and disarming personality made him a Colosimo favorite. To help him in his work, Torrio imported from Brooklyn a broad-shouldered, scarfaced Italian named Al Capone. Torrio taught Capone how to kill. Every night they...
...Chika. an acrobat who had traveled from Europe on his boat. Chika's villainous father wanted to sell her to Grier, and she would not really have minded, but since Grier did not fall in with the idea she let her father put her in a brothel. Grier soon forgot her when he met O Setsu San. the lovely interpreter at an inn called The House of the Playful Kitten. Then an earthquake unexpectedly advanced his suit with his first love, O Kaya San. Soon they were living together. When Grier went back to England, because it was "necessary...
...week to Dessye, main Ethiopian headquarters in the North, over a road especially repaired to make the journey possible. Dessye greeted the Emperor with arches of leaves, transparent banners, and a delegation of policemen imported from Addis Ababa to keep order. Red Cross signs, traditional marks of an Ethiopian brothel, were hastily taken from the numerous houses of joy, and all night long minor chieftains chanted the psalms of David while the Emperor conferred with his onetime Minister to Paris, modest General Tecle Hawariate, who, it was announced will be commander of Ethiopian troops in the North. The announcement promptly...