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...small fishing village in German-occupied Brittany, German N.C.O. Hans Holle returned late at night from a visit to a French trull. Impudently he waved a black cotton stocking at Frenchmen he met on the dark roads. Next morning Gay Dog Hans was found dead, a bullet in his stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Escape | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Later he ran away for four days, walked 50 miles to spend the night (chastely) with a local trull, who told him: "You are too innocent to be a priest. You will be a great failure." Rector MacNabb suggested that for penance Francis write 2,000 words on "The Virtue of Walking." Wrote the local priest: "Naturally, the pinnacle of achievement would have been the conversion of the woman ... as the result of our young apostle's visitation! But alas! She has gone into partnership with another madam and opened a brothel in Barcelona, which I grieve to report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodness Made Readable | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...anything from Shakespeare to Dr. Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly munched razor blades during her interview, a ladies' sportswear manufacturer, who described how he would paint Bach's music, many a trull, tramp and taxi driver. Fond of kidding Major Bowes, McCoy often bills his program as "Second Lieutenant McCoy's Opportunity Hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The McCoy | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...about a love episode in Blighty during World War I-keyed up to catch the overtones of World War II, and toned down to meet the objections of censors. Waterloo Bridge is no longer a tale of a shy Canadian soldier who falls in love with a shy London trull. It is the story of a good-looking, upper-class British officer (Robert Taylor) who, during an air raid, conceives an undying passion for a good-looking ballerina (Vivien Leigh). After causing her to lose her job, he has to go off to the war before he can marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 3, 1940 | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Occasional laugh. But it is uneasy laughter. For the wicked old lady is seen debauching her young granddaughter (Joan Carroll), trying to debauch her teen-age granddaughter, Ellie May (Ginger Rogers). Their mother (Marjorie Rambeau) has become a wistful and underpaid trull, the sole support of her family and her gin-drinking scholar husband (Miles Man-der). Ellie May, a pig-tailed slum Diana, is barely saved from her mother's fate by Joel McCrea as she is racing (in a big car with her mother's ex-boy friend) toward San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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