Word: procuresses
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...cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like armor-clad rhinoceros. Looks neolithic, neckless, materialistic with powerful drive and stubborn pugnacity. Atavistic. Unusually intelligent primate. Nose.like a darning gourd. Expression like an old procuress...
...slightly revised version of two earlier Ruth Chatterton pictures-Madame X, in which she was a Parisian prostitute with a small son, and Once a Lady, in which she was a Parisian prostitute with a small daughter. In Frisco Jenny, Ruth Chatterton lives in California and acts as a procuress-first to provide bread and mittens for her small illegitimate whippersnapper; then, from force of habit. While branching out with a profitable bootlegging business, Frisco Jenny keeps a scrapbook of her son's doings. When this scrapbook reveals that he is running for district attorney of San Francisco...
...whole business, the Hubbards head for the homeland. Actress Boland, struggling with French maids and telephones, plagued by a Coca-Cola-guzzling husband, turns in a businesslike, applausible performance. Lost Sheep. If a Methodist minister should unwittingly rent a house which had but recently been evacuated by a procuress and six employes, the situation might contain much potential coarse merriment. Playwright Belford Forrest, having conceived of such a plan, made sure that his preacher was sufficiently naive to suspect nothing for at least three acts of a play which he called Lost Sheep. Rev. William Wampus, awaiting the completion...
...stood before the bar of justice. The man was convicted of bookmaking (horse-race betting), sentenced to a year in prison, fined $1,000. The woman was found guilty of running a disorderly house, given three years imprisonment, also fined $1,000. The cases of the gambler and the procuress did not excite Atlantic County interest as examples of routine viciousness, but as the first definite results of an unusually elaborate crusade conducted by a newspaper...
...convictions at Mays Landing last week were part of a general house-cleaning anticipated by long-suffering townsmen. The procuress, Kitty Harris, operated her lupanar at No. 2128 Arctic Ave., Atlantic City. Shrewd Journal reporters alleged that she had not only enjoyed official patronage, but was the Mayor's tenant. The bookmaker, Louis O'Donnell, had the distinction of being the first member of his profession to be sent to prison by the rusty wheels of Atlantic County justice in 33 years...