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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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For more than a month the Italian senate had sought refuge in such nice-nellyisms as "case di tolleranza" (houses of tolerance), "case da te" (tea houses) or "persiane chiuse" (closed shutters). Last week, white-maned, octogenarian Gaetano Pieraccini lost his patience. "I am a plain doctor and a Florentine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Battle of the Brothels | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Demi-Rome. It was not an easy matter to decide. The world's oldest profession could claim a long and proud history in Italy. Romulus and Remus, the brothers who founded Rome, it was said, were themselves the bastards of a vestal virgin who yielded to Mars for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Battle of the Brothels | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Since 1888, regulated, police-supervised prostitution has been a source of state revenue in modern Italy. Today the Ministry of the Interior collects an annual n to 13 billion lire a year in fees from 722 brothels employing nearly 4,000 girls.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Battle of the Brothels | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

To at least one Roman senator, grey, motherly, left-wing Socialist Angelina Merlin, this situation was a "social disgrace." A year ago last August, she introduced a bill to outlaw houses of prostitution in Italy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Battle of the Brothels | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Like Enemy Airplanes. Bordello-keepers united against the anti-brothel bill and raised a 60 million lire ($96,000) fighting fund. In one house in Milan, any customer signing a petition against the bill was awarded one free visit. The girls and the worried madam in a swank Naples house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Battle of the Brothels | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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