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Word: harlot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pageant of post-War England, three volumes so far, three more to come. Every once in a while she buries the bone (but not her bitterness-the War killed her brother, most of her men friends) and writes about Yorkshire moors or shipbuilding or the avocations of a harlot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magnified Obsession | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...unionized. To make a clean sweep, he decides to sell his farm as well. But when he agrees to sell it to a Nazi Bund for a "recreation ground," not only his family protests, but his long-dead forebears - along with Harriet Beecher Stowe and fiction's famed Harlot Moll Flanders - rise from their graves to remonstrate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...taken them on a camera expedition up New Guinea's dangerous Sepik River. The offered role turned out to be that of Fletcher Christian, in a film to be called In the Wake of the Bounty. In an old blond wig ("which made me look like a harlot") he swaggered for a week or so at $5 a day on the poop of a grounded H. M. S. Bounty on rockers. After the completion of the film, the impresario hit upon a great publicity stunt. Errol was called back to meet, fresh off an island steamer, a woolly young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...quoting scripture, call him to the Church's service. Through 14 subsequent scenes, stern dominies keep this young, progressive zealot from his project of awakening the Church to "the demands of a changing world." They block his plan for a Church dance, they prevent his sheltering a pursued harlot, just as he has concluded that the Church is not all that it should be, his disapproving seniors unfrock him. He is glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Cartoon. To tall Clarence Daniel Batchelor of the New York News (TIME, Oct. 26) went the $500 cartoonist's award for a picture of a harlot labeled "War" enticing a boy labeled "Any European Youth." Caption: "Come on in, I'll treat you right. I used to know your daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pulitzer Prizes | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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