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...children of syphilitic parents or grandparents," he warns, "are never born equal to the child of clean blood." He inveighs against "the whining ingrate, the campus trollop of either sex, and the cinema degenerates, using pep hills to enliven their dreariness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cosmography Offers New Theory of Universe, Claims Sun Stands Still in Space Below Earth | 4/27/1951 | See Source »

...dainty pistol just above the garter. She sets up shop in the frontier town of Bottleneck to track down the local varmints who killed her father. In the course of a plot with as many turns as her corset strings, Shelley has all the fun of acting like a trollop, then finally turns out to be a perfect lady, worthy of Sheriff Joel McCrea himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Way Out West | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Leader of the yelping pack is Christopher's own wife, Sylvia, a beautiful, well-bred trollop who is driven sadistically insane by her husband's absolute incorruptibility. Wherever Christopher shows up-in government offices, in country retreats, even in the mud of France-he finds Sylvia there, turning men's minds against him. As a woman, Sylvia is probably the worst bitch in 20th Century fiction, and scarcely credible. But as a symbol of merciless revolution against old, established order she is the core of Ford's social tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncle Toby on Kanchenjunga | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...twisted sense of honor and self-respect; an urbane lawyer (Louis Calhern) who is addicted to high living and low morality; a coldly efficient criminal mastermind (Sam Jaffe); a spineless, greedy bookie (Marc Lawrence); a cop-hating hunchback (James Whitmore); a home-loving safecracker (Anthony Caruso); a pathetic nightclub trollop (Jean Hagen); a cynically corrupt detective (Barry Kelley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...desert area surrounding a fabulous South African diamond mining concession. Mounting guard on the diamonds are a shrewd, sadistic police chief (Paul Henreid), and his boss (Claude Rains), an elegant, cynical fellow who plays with human lives like a petulant puppet master. With the help of a luscious French trollop (Corinne Calvet), the two men are bent on frustrating the aims of a hulking American hunting guide (Burt Lancaster) who feels that he has earned the right to walk off with some of their precious pebbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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