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Word: strumpets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Newsiest Dictator | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...West has produced another screen play which she wrote herself. . . ." Whether or not Klondike Annie is really worth the attention of Congressmen will depend on how familiar they are with earlier West efforts from which the current one differs only in detail. This time she is a San Francisco strumpet who knifes her Chinese paramour, slips on board an Alaska-bound freighter, enraptures its captain (Victor McLaglen), befriends a churchworker bound for Nome, usurps her identity when she dies, lands in Nome as Sister Annie Alden, enslaves a young territorial police officer (Philip Reed), renounces him rather than ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: Mar. 9, 1936 | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...like proportion there are few scoundrels. Not since the passing of him, known as Petty-John , and his motley crew have there been organized drinking bouts in Lowell House. If a statement had to be made, it might well have been based on facts bearing a few degrees the strumpet is to starve her to death. George T. Skinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

First president of the union was Maria Gonzalez. A tall, angular woman of 29 notably lacking in sex appeal, she operates a room or as she prefers to call it a "ship" within Mexico City's tolerance zone. Loudly last week she issued her strumpet call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: 5. D. M. | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

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