Word: harlotization
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...applaud those who carry through "the biggest job in the world . . . of making a successful home" and to flay those who "pandering to the weaknesses of human nature for thirty pieces of silver . . . unfortunately find ways to gratify their passions without the responsibilities of marriage and who, like the harlot of old, wipe their mouths, and say I have not sinned...
...they all went to Anhwei. The farm was in a dreadful state, but money mended matters; soon Wang Lung was richest man in the village. Famines came again but he outrode them. Olan served him well and truly, lived to see herself supplanted by Lotus, a pretty but sterile harlot-mistress. Wang Lung's sons grew up to disappoint him. He was proud of their superior education but grieved that they cared nothing for the good earth from which their fortune had sprung. Just before his death he overheard them planning to sell his old farm, the only thing...
...Johnnie is that it is a well-staged lithograph. Scenes along the St. Louis river front are ably documented, the light ladies, gamblers, saloon inhabitants are clothed without anachronism. The plot adheres rather faithfully to the plot of the song. Most variations of the ballad agree that Frankie (a harlot) and Johnnie (a pander) were lovers- "And Oh, my God how they did love." Pledging eternal faithfulness, Frankie proceeds to support Johnnie, attiring him in "hundred-dollar" suits. Then it appears that Johnnie is philandering with a lady called Nellie Bly.* Frankie learns where an assignation is being kept...
...blue-eyed, snub-nosed son in her arms. Judge Sabath signed an order giving to each legal possession of the child she held. Yet he was still uncertain in his own mind as to which baby was which. Since there were two children, the famed maternity case of Harlot v. Harlot as decided by Judge Solomon of Israel in B. C. 1014 afforded him no precedent. He arose to the occasion, however, as follows...
...with U. S. Army folk quartered in the Philippines. Playwright Ann Shelby, reported to be the wife of an Army officer and apparently wishing to give everyone in the audience at least a smattering of his or her favorite dramatic cliche, has incorporated in her play a half-caste harlot with a heart of gold, a funny Chinaman, a courtly and misunderstood Castilian, a miserly husband, a disillusioned wife, a black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot: Major Rodney, an Intelligence Officer, believes that if he can get his wife to make Julio Cortez confess that...