Word: pimped
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...stalked into his yard, stalked off again with two birds who looked pretty much like weasels in chicks' clothing. One was tough, slick George E. Browne, an A.F. of L. vice president and member of Mr. Green's executive council. The other was a onetime Chicago pimp-200-lb., frog-faced William ("Willie") Bioff. The charge against them: extortion...
...legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15, he quit home. He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi, one of Rome's biggest business men. He had already published a book and was watching his chance. It came in the death of Hanno, fat Pope Leo X's pet elephant...
...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...