Word: soho
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...Glasgow police court, convicting a brothel keeper, describes her house as "a miniature League of Nations." In a Soho pub catering to all colors and nationalities, the barrel-bosomed proprietress deals thunderously with her conglomerate customers: "All right, you lovely people, it's eleven o'clock; get the hell out of here...
...four pages are usually crowded with war news from crack correspondents like Alan Moorehead in Algiers, C. V. R. Thompson in New York. But the Express is at its best on stories about murders, sex, abandoned babies and the more maudlin doings of Soho underworldlings. The U.S. staff (three reporters in New York, a man each in Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles) files about 3,000 words daily, is never surprised to get a cable like: "RUSH...
...week he lives in the Foreign Office. Weekends he spends in a comfortable 18th-Century house near London, with handy direct telephones to the Prime Minister and to the Foreign Office. Last week he spent an evening out at the Queensberry All-Service Club in London's Soho. An ATS girl asked him to dance. Suavely Eden danced an encore with...
...practice of the world's oldest profession, the water fronts of Port Said or Shanghai have never hummed more briskly than do London's Piccadilly and gaudy, shoddy Soho. Day & night girls walk their dogs, soliciting. Police look the other way, make few attempts to check the prostitutes' health records. But only last week did British prudery permit a few ugly words to be spoken in public...
...ration is three a month. Baked spaghetti and macaroni dishes are almost impossible to make, because farinaceous foods are either unobtainable or rationed to near zero. Soho shops still sell ravioli occasionally, but it is filled only with spinach. Most people have forgotten the taste of cheese or wish they could forget it. All sausage is partly packed with bread crumbs. More than a quarter of a pound of sugar might be allotted each person weekly if so much were not being sent...