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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Quixote's Author | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Jimmie's father was a Northwest lumberman, his mother a slut. When his father was killed Jimmie did not stay home long. He bummed around the lumber country, became a millman, had a good time, made good wages. When he met Pearl he meant to seduce her; instead he proposed. They were settled in their own house and had two children when the trouble began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Buzz-Saw | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...live." Marie Antoinette was a lovely martyr in white dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan. The worldly cardinal who passionately loved Antoinette nevertheless caused her miserable downfall because he was the dupe of a scheming court slut. This clever minx stole the necklace, implicated the queen in the scandal, but herself rode screaming and scratching to the Bastille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Touching History | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Betters was written twelve years ago by famed William Somerset Maugham as an indictment of those unfortunate U. S. women who, by purchasing the titles of European nobility and then noisily misconducting themselves, seem less to deserve their elaborate and acquired nomenclature than the simple label slut. To this honking propaganda, a modern audience dares say "Boo!" The play is a rapidly ironic comedy of bad manners. Ina Claire lends it the exciting charm of her acting and her tireless beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

INTERFERENCE?An immensely affable group of Londoners go into the little matter of a slut who swallows prussic acid (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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