Word: whoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...written between 1927 and 1948, the author goes about his business with sour skill, and with one or two lapses in which symbolism becomes ludicrous. Typical of the collection is a story about a young man, neither bad nor good but bored and alone, who meets two sisters, both whores, in a bar. The older sister balks at taking the young man back to her home ("Home is a sacred place," she says) and agrees only after a promise of additional lire. But during the tram ride to their destination, the younger girl chatters bawdily about her trade. When they...
According to director Michael B. Ritchie '60, "record breaking crowds and a 320 per cent return on the original investment" prompted the staff to extend its run. Numerous difficulties, including that fact that Maria Livanos, who plays a "cut-rate whore," has run out of 1 o'clock permissions, precluded additional performances during reading period...
...Harry the Greyhound, and madams like Mad Margareta, 58, who employs 30 girls in one house bordering a canal and owns five other brothels. "She is the capitalist of the district," said the police. The pimps and madams were accused of accepting hippen money (hip is Dutch slang for whore...