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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chiropractor and a reformed drunk, while Lola is "old, fat and sloppy," with nothing on her mind but dreams of a lost puppy, Little Sheba, which is her own private symbol of the happy past. When their student boarder (Terry Moore) appears to have turned slut as Lola once did, Doc goes off on an alcoholic bender. By the time he returns from his drunk cure, a beaten, humbled man, Lola is facing the fact that Little Sheba has gone for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 29, 1952 | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Cathy was a vicious slut but Adam didn't know that. Steinbeck has made her a dish of distilled evil, one of the most implausible women in fiction's gallery. As a young, sweet-looking girl she had murdered her parents, burned the family home and skipped off to Boston. There she became the mistress of a man who ran a string of brothels, drove him mad with jealousy and was almost beaten to death by him. When she crawled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Started in a Garden | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...Drury" has almost been sentimentalized into a saint of strumpetry. It may come as something of a surprise to readers of Author John H. Wilson's brisk but scholarly biography that on contemporary testimony the true, unsanctified Nell was also "wanton, brazen, debauched and humorous ... a bold, merry slut," and all for all, "the wildest and indiscreetest creature that ever was in a court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Darling Strumpet | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Cloca Mora Man | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...cake of dung. Is there a slut would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Enter Poet, Laughing | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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