Word: harem
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...perhaps made to pay. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett crawled inside the Siegfried dragon and mourned because "no cigaret or corset ever asked me to endorse it." Coming events were then advertised in lurid cinemafashion. Tosca's name was changed to "Hungry Passions." Rigoletto became "The Hunchback in the Harem." For the sake of the tired businessman, Wagner's Nibelungen Ring was whisked off in less than two minutes...
...seemed excellent to His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador. Perched on the edge of his chair, his high bulging forehead pink with excitement, he bid again and again, walked off with seven canvases at prices ranging from $22.50 to $475. The latter was the price of an enormous highly varnished Harem Scene by Benjamin Constant...
...chief champions. Of course it is espoused by those of NRA who represent the most predatory of interests. For reasons already stated, if this academic fatuity is to prevail, NRA should be folded up and put away in lavender or-better and far different- set to guard the harem of rapacity incarnate. It will have been completely emasculated...
...week Pierce-Arrow was in court again, this time petitioning for permission to reorganize under the new Bankruptcy Act. It has little cash, large bank loans. Its sales have dropped from 8,000 annually to 1,900. But Pierce-Arrow could still be the most aristocratic lady in any harem...
Gone from Turkey is the harem of the late Sultan Abdul Hamid ("The Damned") with its thousand wives and its scores of eunuchs. The blackamoors whom the Turks brought from Abyssinia and emasculated to stand dispassionate guard over their women, remain. Some have found jobs in Istanbul's national museum. Others work as doormen, waiters, handymen, servants. The rich and successful eunuchs who once held vast power in Turkey, help to maintain clubs near the great oldtime palaces, where the destitute members of their lost calling gather, dress up, observe the old etiquet, gossip, intrigue and try to keep...