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Word: whoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady Melbourne. She presented her husband with six children, few of whom were his. William was universally supposed to be the son of Lord Egremont, who, scandal had it, bought Lady Melbourne from Lord Coleraine for ?13,000, of which Lady Melbourne got a cut. ("Your mother is a whore," a young Cambridge friend once shouted at William's brother George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caroline Lamb's Husband | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Academy, but Maurras' Royalism is in a class by itself-it goes back further and is more venomous than that of all the others combined. In the Royalist newspaper, Action Française, which he founded in 1898, his savage diatribes against the Republic (which he calls "the whore") have even embarrassed some fellow Royalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Immortal Election | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...Whore: freshmen 9%, seniors 15%, faculty 8%, men 11%, women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Taboo Words | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...magistrate ruled the words were not obscene, dismissed the charge. The New York World-Telegram and Herald Tribune, carefully reporting to their readers that one of the words appeared in verse 7 of chapter 21 in the Book of Leviticus, ostentatiously refrained from mentioning them. The legal words: whore, whorehouse, hump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Taboo Words | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...main difficulty is that neither Robert Taylor nor Jean Harlow acts. Robert Taylor has concluded that all that is expected of him is to be irresistibly boyish, which he sets out to be ad nauseam. Jean Harlow, on the other hand, thinks her whore job done if she glowers her way through the show and charges around squalling away in the most strident voice she can muster. Occasionally she sees fit to force the wannest of smiles, which can scarcely compensate anybody for all the termagancy he has witnessed...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: Tbe Crimson Moviegoer | 4/17/1937 | See Source »

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