Word: strumpet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he 1) considered himself "a pocket Hercules ... a warrior descended from the Moorish fighters'' but passed out after downing one gin sling; 2) wore khaki shorts and tied the house keys to his belt "to show that he was the master"; 3) penciled in the word "strumpet" when he spotted "wife" on a magazine cover...
Henze's plot takes the old story of Manon Lescaut forward to the Paris of 1950 and turns its willful heroine into a strumpet and murderess, her brother into a pimp and thief. Henze's music is largely in a clangorous twelve-tone technique...
...Castle of My Skin should make instructive reading for colonial administrators. Author Lamming remembers how things were, can still reproduce faithfully the political confusion of the islanders, as well as he can record the quarreling speech of a village strumpet: "I could give your story to the worl'. but people who is people don't do that sort o' thing. You ain't people. Baby Parker. You foot never touch shoe nor you head hat. You ain't people...
When Tereso hears that Fausta, a luscious widow with the face of a boy and the soul of a strumpet, will attend a fancy dress party, he decides that he too will go. This decision of state sets off a barrage of complications. Tereso's chief of police, worried that he may lose his post because his harsh methods are no longer needed in the thoroughly subdued country, decides to stage and then dramatically crush a phony attempt on the dictator's life. The "assassination" is to be undertaken by Perro, a police spy with a passion...
Nell brought to the feverish, pale-blooded court of Charles a throb of natural England. The tales of her fishwife eloquence in high places made her-in a phrase that was intended as an epithet but became an accolade-"the darling strumpet of the crowd." Once, for instance, she was so proud of her new petticoats that right in the presence of the French ambassador, she lifted them one by one. In line of duty, the Frenchman sat down and wrote a report to his foreign minister back home: "I never in all my life saw such thorough cleanliness, neatness...