Word: pimped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands. Ward said he even doubted that Christine had slept with Soviet Naval Attache Evgeny Ivanov. "Like a lot of people," purred Ward, "she tells a story often enough and comes to believe it and does tell lies." In any case, he insisted, it was "inconceivable" that he would pimp for his friends...
Harry has deserted his girl Jeanie after arranging an abortion for her; he has become the pimp-lover of a whore; and now he is choking and robbing a blind beggar. "God will punish you!" cries the beggar. "God, huh?" says Harry. "Ask God to give you a new pair of eyes...
...perfect foil for the bumbling Lemmon. With a face that can twinkle like a terrier's or crumple into bloodhoundish gloom at the first unkind word, Jack makes the most (once he's fired as a cop) of being Shirley's mec-the only pimp in Paris with the principles of an eagle scout...
...unblessed poor: booze, bickering and sex. Grandpa belts the brandy. Mum and Dad fight whenever Dad isn't swiving a neighbor lady, and Mum isn't being hauled off to the cooler for disorderly conduct. Their son is an ex-pug, his friend is a pimp, and so it goes. Unfortunately, the play does not go-either toward social comment or domestic disaster, or toward that uncommon probing of the commonplace, the drab and the degraded that unveils an expanse of spirit in a waste of shame. All that remains is slice-of-life realism, which an inept...
...Rotgut," a word that sounds as if it were coined no later than Prohibition, meant much the same thing to Johnson; it was "bad beer" in his day. A Hollywood flesh peddler, i.e., actor's agent, has a philological ancestor in Johnson's London, where a pimp was a fleshmonger. "Bum" Dr. Johnson defined with magisterial simplicity as "the part on which...