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...Spain was as rotten and bankrupt a monarchy as Europe had ever seen. Leprous beggars and pockmarked peasants scratched their lice and wallowed in filth unmatched since the Middle Ages. Degraded courtiers wasted themselves lewdly in fashionable excesses copied from the French court of Louis XVI. The harlot Queen Maria Luisa, a green-complexioned, toothless masterpiece of stale flesh, wore herself out with dissipation, while her doltish husband hunted serving wenches and rabbits. (Of Maria Luisa Napoleon said: "Her character is written on her face; it surpasses anything you dare imagine.") Spain's strong man was Don Emmanuel Godoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Furious Spaniard | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

There are racking vibrations from a subway excavation just underneath. Drunks leer and bellow in the window. The Greek landlord raves about his paintings that deface the wall. There are uncomfortable visits from the previous tenant, a harlot, and some of her clients. Further annoyances are a drug clerk who brings Eileen unappetizing "specials" from his counter and a reporter whose mind is not on the news. A Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech, waiting for the pro football season, is a tough protector to the girls but insists on lunging through their room in his underwear. Finally Ruth is followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 6, 1941 | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...movie is the same one that was shown to the Alumni in the Institute of Geographical Exploration on Saturday. At that time varsity coach Dick Harlot pointed out the fine points of play, which Boston will do on Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies of Yale Game To Be Shown Yarding | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...pageant of post-War England, three volumes so far, three more to come. Every once in a while she buries the bone (but not her bitterness-the War killed her brother, most of her men friends) and writes about Yorkshire moors or shipbuilding or the avocations of a harlot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magnified Obsession | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...unionized. To make a clean sweep, he decides to sell his farm as well. But when he agrees to sell it to a Nazi Bund for a "recreation ground," not only his family protests, but his long-dead forebears - along with Harriet Beecher Stowe and fiction's famed Harlot Moll Flanders - rise from their graves to remonstrate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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