Word: gigolos
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...deferential man who had "the face of a seal and breathed very loudly through his short nose." The old men were very cordial while the seal kissed the Countess' hand with "very moist lips." But as soon as he moved on, Bratianu-beard said: "Voila le gigolo le phis dangereux de Bucharest." All his friends in high Rumanian society knew, said the Old Excellencies, that "he lived on women and blackmail" and "worked for Moruzov's Secret Police." Nearly everybody in the Athene Palace worked for Moruzov, they said, from waiters and washroom attendants to "the apple-cheeked...
...Thereupon a proscenium mike, representing the voice of the theater, agrees, after a bit of bickering, to follow through. The hero becomes the $25-a-week slave of a pulp publisher, has his pay cut to $21 when the publisher's wife decides to support a Middle-European gigolo, is jailed for exposing his publisher's past. But, as it must to all musicomedies, a happy ending comes to this...
...lead him at last to Greece and death at the age of 36. Byron in Italy is an account of what Byron did while he was waiting for death - his friendship with Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley; his affairs with various Venetian slum women and men ; his services as a gigolo-extraordinary to dumpy, dull, married Countess Teresa Guiccioli. It is also an account of his most active years as a romantic revolutionist, and of some of his most productive years as a poet...
Presently Byron moved in with the Guiccioli at their Ravenna palazzo. At last he was a full-fledged cavaliere servente, a cicisbeo, an official gigolo whose prior rights, by old Italian custom, are fully recognized by the husband. Wrote Byron: "I have been an intriguer, a husband, a whoremonger, and now I am a Cavaliere Servente-by the holy! it is a strange sensation." Sometimes he grumbled: "I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan War." He added that he was "drilling very hard to learn how to double a shawl"-a gallantry all well-trained cicisbei...
...bakery. But little else in her life is quite as easy as pie. The first of her lovers, her husband's ex-partner, is only too ready to betray her when it means money to him. Her second, an insolvent playboy, blandly accepts her money, calls himself her gigolo, sneers over her with her daughter Veda as a working woman, a moneygrubber, a "varlet...