Word: strumpet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Strumpet Call. As producer as well as librettist of the famous operas, Gilbert was the driving power behind the scenes. Through him, the light-opera chorus ceased to be a mere massed accompaniment to the soloists, became vociferous participants in the speedy, highly involved counterpoint of Gilbertian song. Through him, too, many a D'Oyly Carte Company member rose from the ranks to stardom. It was rarely a smooth rise: Gilbert's temper was as full of spikes as a bag of nails, his rehearsals long and terrifying. Once, when a player warmly urged his untalented mistress...
...postmortem were published (the bruises took two and a half typewritten pages to list), St. Louisans demanded to know: had the police clubbed Melendes to death? The Beaters. Newspapers dug up a photograph of Melendes taken at the nightclub shortly before his arrest, showing him gaily cavorting with a strumpet...
...passion, he dazzles the dewey-eyed teacher from a sticks town in the States and wins her with a round-the-clock courtship. As we suspected, though, fate plays the trump card, and he falls like a lame duck right into her lap. The plot thickens when a rival strumpet, played to perfection by Paulette Goddard, disillusions Olivia about Boyer's soiled past, but the Rumanian's heart of gold, generated in the nick of time by the Hollywood alchemists, wins...
...Nazi broadcast jazzed up this able Aux Ecoutes scoop to tell Germans that not $790 but $75,000 was given Mile de Fontages-a sum which no statesman in thrifty Europe would ever have to part with to a journalistic strumpet. At latest reports wounded Count de Chambrun, ever the gallant diplomat of the old school, was refusing to have the woman who winged him prosecuted. Said the Countess de Chambrun, former Princess Murat: "This journalist often saw my husband when she was in Rome writing news stories. She certainly was suffering from hallucinations when she suddenly appeared...
Indeed Subscriber Belger does not understand the meaning of the word "wench." Webster's New International Dictionary defines "wench": "A girl or maiden; young woman; damsel. A girl of the peasant class; also a female servant." Archaic is meaning No. 4: "A lewd woman; a strumpet...