Word: harlots
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...that go down in one's recollection as a great experience. Veteran scribes of the theatre, comparing notes, decided that, on the whole, it was the worst thing they had ever seen in a first-line Broadway playhouse. The plot dealt with a girl who substituted herself for a harlot when her lover tried to take an evening off. So thoroughly ludicrous was the enterprise that the audience hooted with amusement. This has happened, in moderation, before. Never before has one of the actors in a piece actually broken down and laughed at the fatuity of his own lines...
...hold that the quality of children may be improved by lessening the number of births by unnatural means. This big talk has nothing but mere assumption to rest upon. And it is upon this strange assumption that neither the facts of history nor moral plausibility sustains, that they expect harlot practices to bring forth children with the strength of a Samson, the judgement of a Daniel, the genius of a Shakespeare, the scientific accomplishments of a Pasteur, and the all around Americanism of a Franklin...
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With the knowledge you have, how can you with any safe conscience put India in the British Commonwealth of Nations, when it is a fact that India is a harlot of the British Empire? I am certain that you will persist in calling the British Empire by the rosy name of "Commonwealth of Nations" and so oh and put India in it as one of the commonwealths. Well, I cannot prevent you from doing it, but I owe it to my conscience to protest against the prostitution of this word...
...monk pursued her. What should a monk have to do with so great, so good a lady? Ah, he was trying to save her soul from hellfire, for in the play she was not good at all. She was Maria Jeritza (Baroness Von Popper) pretending to be Thais (famed harlot) at the season's first performance of the opera of that name. Now it is not difficult for a courtesan to pretend to be a great lady. The best courtesans are said to give a certain number of hours each day to the practice of this role, some...