Word: pimping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michigan's Republican Clare Hoffman took some personal fury to the floor. He waved a copy of the Kalamazoo Gazette, which quoted Michigan's Democratic John Lesinski as saying that "Hoffman is a pimp of Joe Stalin." Hoffman complained for 40 minutes before Lesinski got a word...
...merely that Hoffman "had no more authority than a rabbit" to act as a one-man committee to investigate labor trouble in Michigan. To this Lesinski had added: "That to me is what Mr. Hitler tried to do to the unions in Germany . . . And Mr. Hitler was a pimp of Joe Stalin, a prostitute...
...amazed at the fortune his painting brought him ("It can't be mine," he said once when someone told him his bank balance. "They've made a mistake at the bank; it must belong to someone else"). He felt miscast as a portraitist: "Portrait painting is a pimp's profession...
Lucky Luciano, deported super-pimp of Manhattan, was having cop trouble again. Palermo (Sicily) police picked him up and quizzed him for three days about his Maffia connections. Then they let him go again till next time...
...this smart, sad and savage world, a nightclub owner automatically becomes a pimp for a big Hollywood producer, a small-time gangster messes up a chorus girl's marriage by re-seducing her for the sake of a hideout, a playboy is murdered politely by the man whose girl he makes a pass at. Just as ugly are other stories in which a drunken father fills his son with cold shame, a cynical screenwriter deceives a horrible adolescent, a beautiful but unbearable white girl from Texas tries to make trouble in a Harlem nightspot...