Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman who stood, almost in tears, among the knot of spectators broke in: "It was our girl, Wilma...
...story, such as it is, evolves among five characters: a sort of bush-league saint (James Cagney) who tries to make people happy; a dim Man Friday (Wayne Morris); a B-girl* (Jeanne Cagney) who claims to have been prominent in burlesque; a fine old pathological liar (James Barton) in fringed buckskins; an itinerant sadist (Tom Powers) who has to supply, singlehanded, Saroyan's conception of the power and proportion of evil in this world...
...Moko (Tony Martin), who just sneers at the cops as long as he keeps to the native quarter of Algiers, but doesn't dare venture outside. It is also the story of a plainclothesman (Peter Lorre) who languidly bides his time; of a native girl (Yvonne de Carlo), weighed down with costume jewelry, who loves Pépé; and of the French tourist Gaby (Marta Toren), atwitter with diamonds, through love of whom Pépé is lured to disaster...
...girl paid to talk (and listen) to lonely bar customers, keep them buying drinks...
...secret agent, but he is pretty confused about which side he is on. The reader will share his confusion. But nothing much is left unexplained about Artillery's love life: he oscillates between fair, proud Beth (daughter of a wealthy merchant) and dark, passionate Dauna (a slave girl). In the big emotional climax, after buying Dauna in a slave mart, Artillery whips her for calling him "Master...