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Presently the B-26 was being called "The Flying Prostitute" (because some airmen thought that the 65-foot wingspread, for so much airplane, constituted "no visible means of support"). By derivation, it became "The Baltimore Whore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Respectable Floozie | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

Thursday. Principal Herbert W. Smith of Chicago's Francis W. Parker School (375 children, all ages) pooh-poohed the Post Office, testified he had found such words as "whore" in Shakespeare, "sono-va-bitch" in the Chicago Tribune. He looked at an Esquire cartoon in which a harem beauty with a "Happy Birthday" tag on her ankle approaches two Yanks in the desert. Says one Yank to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Experts Failed to Blush | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

They published this side by side with the official police photo-a puffy, bloody, battered face (see cuts). The Civil Liberties Committee rounded up Brinkley and two others arrested with Melendes-a pert little whore named Wanita Johnson and a soldier named Private Edward Buckshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Whitewash in St. Louis | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...then," demanded Justice Robert H. Jackson, in a dissenting opinion last week, "can the Court today hold it a 'high constitutional privilege' to go to homes, including those of devout Catholics on Palm Sunday morning, and thrust upon them literature calling their church a 'whore' and their faith a 'racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: 4-to-5; 5-to-4 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...made his living by ribbing the tolerant Third Republic, which he called "the whore." Now it was gone. France, which he loved, was overrun with Germans-"uniformed blackguards, helmeted swine." The Royalist cause, of which he had been the loudest & funniest champion, was all but forgotten. And the good wines of France, which he claimed would "improve bad heredity, amplify good heredity," were mostly being used for the improvement of Nazis. There was little left for him to live for when, last week, death came to old Léon Daudet, 74, longtime editor of Paris' L' Action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Death of a Conspiracy | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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