Word: courtesan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward VII, went backstage at the Varietes. He was led through a gloomy cavern of stained canvas, ropes, flaring lamps. The air was pungent, draughty, filled with the cloying scent of women doused with violent perfumes. The blond prince entered the dressing room of the leading lady, a famed courtesan. She greeted him with coy, voluptuous respect, in tantalizing deshabille. The little dressing room was filled with starchy gentlemen, shouting amid the gay popping of corks. To one side stood a myopic, corpulent, bearded figure. His squinting eyes turned ceaselessly, his nostrils twitched. He was Emile Zola, novelist...
...York Herald in 1835 as a penny daily, newspapers were essentially windy political and personal organs. James Gordon Bennett gave the public hot news: the first stock table, Wall Street stories (including swindles and names), police reports, scandals. He made a sensation of the murder of a famed courtesan. He pried into the doings of the top social set, which never accepted him. The Herald's stories rollicked with color. He treated religion as news?a fact which annoyed clergymen. He published the first ship news, had a sailboat go out to Montauk Point to meet incoming ships...
Slain. Elizabeth, Countess Fischler von Treuberg, 58, famed European adventuress; by Edgar Beese, German flier, who committed suicide at the same time; in Berlin. Born in 1870, a tailor's daughter, Elizabeth Uhl became a wealthy, fashionable courtesan, celebrated in Continental capitals and on the Riviera. In 1911 she won long-sought social standing by her marriage to Count von Treuberg, a bankrupt naval officer. She had arranged to pay him 25,000 marks, but never did so and the marriage was later annulled. Aviator Beese's father, mother and sister all were suicides before...
Certainly this view is strengthened by the peculiar attitude of Socialist-Novelist Mussolini toward the mob which he raises against Claudia the courtesan. The mob, he declares, "represented the poorest classes, excitable, impulsive, sentimental. They are the classes which patiently endure economic slavery without protest and then burst into revolt over some moral issue...
...story about a courtesan written by Alphonse Daudet, for his sons "when they are twenty," supplied Jules Massenet with a frail clothes line upon which to peg his watery songs. Chiefly because Mary Garden ("Our Mary") must every season have a new role, this Sapho was presented last week in Boston, first stop on the Chicago Civic Opera Company's annual midwinter tour...