Word: whoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this tortured soul, two buddies (Wendell Corey and Mickey Rooney) play what turns out to be a disastrously impractical joke. On a four-day pass, they bribe a pretty little Italian whore (Nicole Maurey) to teach "The Preacher" about the birds and the bees. She asks him to her room. He does not realize what she is suggesting. Like many people who suffer guilt in imagination, he is pathetically innocent in real life. She takes him on a picnic instead. He drinks buttermilk while she drinks vino, shyly confesses that she is the first girl he ever took...
...Seraglio. The Victorian era, according to Pearl, was "an age when prostitution was widespread and flagrant; when many London streets were like Oriental bazaars of flesh; when the luxurious West End nighthouses dispensed love and liquor till dawn; when fashionable whores . . . rode with duchesses in Rotten Row, and eminent Victorians negotiated for the tenancy of their beds; when a pretty new suburb arose at St. John's Wood as a seraglio for mistresses and harlots." In the rising tide of Victorian morality, one female Londoner in every 16 became a whore; there were 6,000 brothels and about...
Walters, who was described by an admirer as "a whore, sir, much sought after by fast young swells." The public knew her as "Skittles," and her rich patrons called her "Skitsie." As "the self-crowned queen of mid-Victorian harlotry," she maintained herself in London in such magnificence that the toilet seat in her bathroom was upholstered in swansdown. She was one of the most accomplished horsewomen of the time, was among the first to become proficient in the sport of roller skating (newly imported from America), had the Prince of Wales at her Sunday afternoon parties. Lord Kitchener, with...
...master of watercolor. Thus equipped, he took to wandering like a self-propelled vacuum cleaner into ugly corners of the everyday world, sucking up sordid impressions to belch out as nightmare pictures. Burra's brush can turn a gin mill into an outpost of hell, a whore into a rapacious owl, a bottle into an imp with one malignant eye peering from the lip. Now a birdlike, tattered little man of 50, Burra rivals his compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection of watercolors, on view last week at Boston...
...people. Flip, shrewdly cynical and bossy, she helps care for a crippled child, tries to manipulate the thinking and affairs of a beautiful nymphomaniac, a black-marketeer, a Protestant minister. Aunt Mathilde, who earns a pathetic living for herself and Constance, is appalled. "A crippled child, and now, a whore! With your mania for rubbing up against humanity, you're apt to force almost anyone on us." Constance drives, insults and cracks the whip over her human menagerie. When her creatures eventually go their own ways, she has nothing left, not even God, "who gets all the credit...