Word: harlot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triumph of personality as well as art. The little Brazilian used her little voice so that every phrase told. She tossed her pretty head, fell in and out of love, made Massenet's shallow, adorable wanton come to life. In La Traviata she was a higher-minded harlot, pathetically resigning her love so as not to ruin him. She sang the difficult display-piece Sempre Libera with uncommon charm...
LIFE STORY-Mark Benney-Random House ($2.50). Autobiography of a London harlot's son who spent half his youth in jail, the rest of it learning night life and the underworld; the whole made horrible by being written in consciously intellectual style...
...work for the Divinity School's so-odd students, under the supervision of experienced physicians, hospital and prison chaplains, wardens, welfare workers. For the first time seminarians may witness, and assist at so far as the canons of the Church permit, such rites as the baptism of a harlot's babe, last prayers for a condemned criminal...
...help the feeling. It also permits able Helen Westley who, as a stand-by of the New York Theatre Guild, was noted for her interpretation of squalid roles, to reach a new low in this respect. A shabby pioneer in Green Grow the Lilacs, a harlot's mother in They Shall Not Die, she appears in Banjo On My Knee as a superannuated female river-rat, mewing & spitting, scratching at her naked, knobbled feet...
...Citizens of Aberdeen, embittered because King Edward, instead of opening their new hospital, met Mrs. Simpson at their railway station on her visit to Scotland (TIME, Oct. 5), chalked Aberdeen streets with the John Knoxian exhortation: "Down with the American Harlot...