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...Which contained "Hatrack," the famed, banned-in-Boston story of Asbury's hometown, only-on-Sunday harlot, who, after being rebuffed and shunned at the Sabbath evening service, would haughtily head down the cemetery lane, where she would entertain as many as came, Catholics in the Masonic cemetery and vice versa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 8, 1963 | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

Walk on the Wild Side (Columbia). "I want to sit and drink with a man," snarls the high-fashion New Orleans harlot (Capucine) to the lesbian madam (Barbara Stanwyck), "not with you!" The madam gasps: "You're being perverse!" She doesn't know the half of it. Suddenly the shameless hussy runs off to marry a "po' buckra" boy (Laurence Harvey) from the backblocks of Texas who can't possibly provide as nice a house as the one she has been living in. Indignant, the madam collects her bullyboys and gives chase. The pigeon refuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No Better Than It Should Be | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...poet, Yeats was like an element in nature. In old age, he loved to tell the tale of an ancient sage (possibly William Butler Yeats) who was asked, "Who are your Masters?" And he replied, "The wind and the harlot, the virgin and the child, the lion and the eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd & Haunting Master | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

Spouting Matthew 5:28 ("Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart") and calling Salome "devil, slut, harlot," she tries tempting George herself and beckons him to "go through the holy fire" with her. George not only spurns Sister Mercy, he whops her good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: ... Where She Danced | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...strangled, and her killer escaped; in 1958 a drunken Norwegian sailor threw Finnish Hennie out of a window. Early last month Amsterdamers heard unsavory details of life in De Walletjes during the trial of Joop Scheide, a pimp who was~sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for killing a harlot called Lean Jossie. Scheide explained that he had only meant to give the girl a good beating because she had earned less than $20 in one night's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Girls from De Walletjes | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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