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...enough to halt production that year, it was passed-with one reservation. In the third act the hero is asked where he got the gun with which he assassinated the tyrant. In answer, sardonically, he says, 'From three medical students in exchange for the address of a Spanish whore.' The Army objected to the word 'Spanish,' explaining that Spain was a neutral country whom we did not wish to offend. They suggested as an alternative that I substitute a Greek whore, Greece, I presume, not being considered neutral and therefore capable of being offended without danger...
...morning Gopal Singh went out on the veranda of his house near the Himalayan foothills and handed his wife, Pyari, some women's dresses to hem. Said Pyari: "Isn't it enough that you should make your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must...
...enough to halt production that year, it was passed-with one reservation. In the third act the hero is asked where he got the gun with which he assassinated the tyrant. In answer, sardonically, he says, 'From three medical students in exchange for the address of a Spanish whore.' The Army objected to the word 'Spanish,' explaining that Spain was a neutral country whom we did not wish to offend. They suggested as an alternative that I substitute a Greek whore, Greece, I presume, not being considered neutral and therefore capable of being offended without danger...
...most brilliant woman novelist. She was also the world's most talked-about feminist. No woman writer since Sappho had made such an impression on her male contemporaries, or left in her wake such a tumult of debate. The public had heard her called everything from whore to angel. Now Biographer Frances Winwar (who changed her own name from Vinciguerra) has retold the story of George Sand with a tenderness, knowledge and enthusiasm that are likely to stir up the old debate and make The Life of the Heart a bestseller...
Hiroshima, first target of atomic bombing, was once Japan's moral cesspool, famed for its teeming whore houses and blackmailing newspapers. Now it is 60% destroyed. Said a U.S. official who knew Hiroshima before the war: "If ever a place needed to be wiped off the face of the map, that place was Hiroshima...