Word: slut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miner who is her star pupil. Newcomer John Dall, as the miner, cares a lot for his role, but he is too urban and smooth to convey much power through it, once he gets the coal dust off his face. Another newcomer, Joan Lorring, as a hysterical little cockney slut who gets herself and the young man in trouble, mixes talent and overemphasis in about equal parts. Hit of the show: Rosalind Ivan, having herself a high old time as the cockney tart's earthy, evangelistic mother...
...Truth," says the author, "is the pedestaled goddess of the Anglo-Saxon world, yet the treatment she receives often makes her look like a slut." He agrees that the charge of hypocrisy commonly leveled against the Englishman is true. Perpetually riven "by the struggle between necessity and conscience," Englishmen can hardly be expected to be otherwise. But the main point, says Baldwin, is that the English conscience is always consulted...
...process of being destroyed, he could take only one wife, and Clory was sure she would be his choice. Willie was dead; 'Sheba was past childbearing. But Clorinda herself, broken by miscarriages, was no prospect as a mother, and Abijah took a new wife, a pitiless slut who had youth if nothing else. Clorinda realized then what 'Sheba had suffered from her. She bore her last child, dead, and slowly died herself...
...manhunters gawp in her yard while the "raped" girl, dizzy with nympholepsy, shows off her breasts. Most of them know she is a slut, some of them doubt she was ever raped; but this is a nigger hunt. Later they break into Negro cabins, strip a Negro couple, whip the husband, turpentine his wife's belly, rape a mulatto girl. Before they get Sonny they drag Sam behind a car. After they have killed Sonny the girl confesses his innocence. They stone her to death...