Word: harlot
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...Browning's findings-a set of surprises for herself, Editor Maloney and presumably for the Trib's readers-were blazoned across the Trib's front page and on its circulation trucks. The nice-Nellie promotion men had a tough problem of finding a euphemism for the harlot Norma Browning had pretended to be, had toyed with "wayward woman," finally settled on "woman outcast...
...tailored suit. They had gone to Philadelphia to see a show. She had been sick on New Year's Eve. She had gone to the apartment to be sick and sleep. "You branded me as a spy and now you are trying to brand me as a harlot," she cried...
...handsome Russian woman, Livia Delectorskaya, who has been his chief model, housekeeper, secretary and protector for 15 years. Livia rounds up other models for the master-a hard job in provincially prudish Vence. Sometimes she returns with the 26-year-old girl who is the town's one harlot, who describes Matisse as "a wonderfully sweet old man, always chattering while I pose." Matisse avoids fellow artists ("I can't see many people nowadays"). But the old man loves to have long chats with the town carpenter, who says he is "kindly and simple, but stubborn at times...
...Harlot's Guest. The hostess is an ex-prostitute named Mrs. Goodman. Among her guests: a kindly, timid intellectual, Max Ford; Max's brother Tom, physician and egocentric man of action; Father Morton, doddering, syphilitic priest; Daisy Tillet, "girl of the golden legs," to whom both brothers are attracted; Miss Black, who switched from an unfaithful Italian lover to religion...
...hours a day, years on end, turning out alternately tripe and masterpieces. Before he was 40 his fame was such that publishers bought and paid for his novels before they were written. But earlier, says Zweig, "there was no literary iniquity that he could not stomach. He was a harlot serving simultaneously two or three literary pimps...