Word: pimp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every child says "Heil Hitler!" from 50 to 150 times a day, is taught to venerate: Horst Wessel, a pimp; Poet Dietrich Eckart, a drug addict; Leo Schlageter, a railroad wrecker. (Minister of Education Bernhard Rust has frequently been confined in a sanatorium during violent attacks of insanity...
Author. Born to a comfortably-fixed Philadelphia family about 50 years ago, Chic Conwell married a chorus girl while he was ushering in a theatre, began using narcotics with her, left home to become a pimp. For 20 years he circulated around U. S. and European cities, working successively as a shoplifter, pickpocket, confidence man. He was sent to prison three times for a total of five years. Between his third release and his death in 1933, he had several legitimate jobs, one of which was writing his book on a weekly wage from the University of Chicago...
...American Jewish Congresswomen whom Mayor LaGuardia addressed were described as "women of the streets" listening to a "pimp and procurer...
...birthplace, name, nationality-are doubtful, says Biographer Neumann. Probably he was born in Mughla, a little town in Anatolia, of Greek parents, christened Zacharias Basileos Zacharoff. He spent part of his youth in Constantinople, where he seems to have been at one time a fireman, at one time a pimp. Whether he also went to Russia for a time and married there (his alleged son, Hyman Barnett Zaharoff. is still trying to prove his paternity), Neumann leaves an open question. Less questionable is the tale of Zaharoff's absconding with 25 boxes of gum and 169 sacks of gallnuts...
Martyr Wessel earned his living as a pimp is glossed over in Germany since he wrote the words of the national Nazi anthem...