Word: harlot
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...whole of Europe go Communist. The U.S. was the biggest force in the world, but what happened elsewhere was none of our business-until the bombs landed on the U.S. Uncle Sam became Uncle Sap in C.D. Batchelor's News cartoons, and the outside world was a seductive harlot in a tight silk dress and a skull's face, labeled "World...
Britannia's Progress. Said Hogarth: "My picture is my stage, and men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show." His two greatest "dumb shows," Harlot's Progress and Rake's Progress, sold like fish & chips but, in an age when only portraits or "historical" paintings in the grand manner were considered Art, the connoisseurs ignored them. And because the characters were real enough to recognize, no one thought of comparing either series of engravings with Bunyan's great book...
...simple reason that he's asked for it! He'll pay a thousand francs for a bottle of third-rate cognac, if there's none to be "liberated." Then he'll get squiffed to the ears and bed himself down with a fire-sale harlot for another thousand francs, if she's pretty enough and smart enough...
...people here are Burgundians, beautiful, proud, strong, and quite contemptuous of the ignorant American soldier who is of the opinion that every French girl is a harlot and should be treated as such. . . . We have completely misunderstood French morals and mores and they ours. We Americans are essentially Puritans (with the connotations that term had in the '20s, that is), so completely self-righteous and yet so evil-minded, as exemplified by our running amok with all sorts of excesses when we are confronted with the essentially honest French mores. There is a great surge of opinion...
Fast, fluent, implausible yarn of amorous and political intrigue inside Turkey, featuring an American girl with a past, a British intelligence agent, a Nazi provocateur, a Hungarian harlot, and the Lend-Lease Administration...