Word: harlotization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cabin, in which she played -'Little Eva," in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, she reached Manhattan in 1911, was given a small part in Jumping Jupiter, later toured with Julian Eltinge in The Crinoline Girl, with George Arliss in Disraeli (see p. 69). Meteoric was her success as Harlot Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's Rain (1922). Although she missed but 15 performances in Rain's run of some five years, in her last play, Her Cardboard Lover, her performance became dilatory, then apperiodic, then sporadic. Failing to appear on the stage in Milwaukee and St. Louis...
...among blotchy maids and tall sardonic valets. . . ." At 14 Chéri fled from boarding school restraint, at 18 he was a miniature old man with black circles under his eyes, "a fussy little property owner with his nose in everything"?needlessly, for his mother was a well-paid harlot...
...slur on Actress Barrymore was intended or contained in TIME'S report. Scarlet Sister Mary's publisher advertised her as "The harlot of Blue Brook Plantation...
Last Autumn when Mrs. Peterkin announced a book called Scarlet Sister Mary, librarians throughout South Carolina ordered copies as a matter of course. They were a little taken aback to read the publisher's blurb that this was "the story of the harlot of Blue Brook Plantation.'' But since there are black harlots on some plantations, and everyone knows it, most South Carolina librarians read the book anyway and put it on the shelves...
...been altered and elaborated by so many artists, including John Barleycorn, that no one person can ever have heard or imagined all its verses. Yet the basic story has simple, tragic dignity which does not depend on the length or bawdiness which always characterize its rendition. Frankie was a harlot. Johnnie was her man. But Johnnie loved Nellie Bly. So Frankie shot her man. "He was her man, but he done her wrong," explains every refrain. The verse at which singers usually break down in tears goes...