Word: slut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schoolmaster Andrew Crocker-Harris of The Browning Version is not just grey from pedagogical dust, but is black and withered with failure. Disliked by his pupils, disdained by the headmaster, he is endlessly tortured by his snob and shrew and slut of a wife, who makes him the confidant as well as the victim of her infidelities. When a pupil suddenly floods him with happiness by bringing him a present, his wife promptly points out that the gift is doubtless really a bribe. At the end, thanks to the prodding of his wife's rebellious lover, Crocker-Harris shows...
...devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair...
...There exist in English 1,300 ways of calling a man a fool and 1,050 for calling a woman a slut...
Forever Amber (20th Century-Fox) is every bit as good a movie as it was a novel. But it may not be as sensationally popular as Kathleen Winsor's account of a Slut's Progress...
...time Austrian-accented Paul Henreid is the overly sensitive, love-tortured medical student. (Henreid's blatantly un-British enunciation is lightly dismissed by a reference in the script to his "Viennese mother.") Eleanor Parker, a pretty, plumpish, 24-year-old ingenue, is physically miscast as the scrawny little slut of a waitress. But under Director Edmund Goulding's shrewd guidance, she does a fine, shoulder-wriggling job in the repellent role that gave Bette Davis a start as the screen's No. 1 hussy...