Word: slut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preliminary scenes are as satirical as they are authoritative; whether they amuse or disgust depends on the reader. But if the reader is amused by the last half of the story, it is no fault of Author lies. From a silly romantic, Mrs. Pawle changes to a sinister slut, experimenting shamelessly with Alan's emotions, goading him to a peak of frenzy in which he attempts to commit murder. He is let off with awful humiliation in her husband's diabolical revenge...
Angel (Paramount) concerns Lady Maria's (Marlene Dietrich) rather pathetic effort to cast off her loyalty to her diplomat husband, Sir Frederick (Herbert Marshall). Angel is not a slut but a wife whose fidelity has been overstrained by Sir Frederick's immersion in diplomacy. And he, for all his fine deliberate charm, is the type of fellow who. when his wife tells him that she has been dreaming, immediately asks...
...kill over their crap games, still shout their religion, their love and fear of ''Lawd Jesus." Porgy, the crippled beggar, appears driving his seedy goat. The simple love story is his. Bess belongs to the murderer Crown. According to the neighbors she is "a liquor-guzzlin' slut," a "Happy Dust" addict. Porgy gives her shelter, buys her a divorce although she never has been married, sets out tragically with his goat to follow her when she runs off to New York...
Marjorie Bowen recounts ''with scrupulous exactitude" Sophie Dawes's strange and fascinating story in a volume that for originality and vigor makes most contemporary biographies look frail. No hero worshipper. Author Bowen calls Sophie a vulgar wanton, a young slut, compares her with a gutter rat, declares that "her worthlessness and the squalor of her tale is duly recognized by the author." Nevertheless she manages to draw a convincing flesh & blood portrait of her subject. Although The Scandal of Sophie Dawes, for all its impressive documentation, emphatically does not solve the great mystery of Sophie...
...took him more than five years to get there. On the voyage they were captured by Algerian pirates, and Cervantes' prized letters got him the uncomfortable honor of being held for an impossibly high ransom. Back in Spain he found various ways of nearly starving, loved a slut who left him, married a slattern whom he gladly left. As a middle-aged tax collector for Philip's insatiable treasury Cervantes might have ended his weary days. But he fell foul of his superiors, was arrested for embezzlement and clapped into the big jail at Seville. There, with...