Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ladies & Gentlemen. Under these favorable conditions, says Author Terrot, white-slave traders managed every year to beguile or betray thousands of young English women into lives of commercial vice. Their methods of recruiting were many and ingenious. The proprietors of the padding kens were on the payroll, as were the managers of "baby farms." Procurers worked hand in glove with society dressmakers, who sent hundreds of girls from the sweatshops to the knocking-shops. The flesh merchants also posed as theatrical agents. One of them, a rogue named Klyberg, assured stagestruck beauties that in Brussels they would "become actresses . . . ladies...
...Lohman's press conference, the television cameras and flood lamps were already in place, and TV technicians and newsmen had grabbed off many of the choice center seats. Making his way past them, the old reporter from a Chicago daily turned a baleful eye on the electronic newsmen. "Gentlemen," he said scornfully. "Technicians. Mechanics. Overpaid jerks...
...that the movie Gilda was an invasion of her privacy (she settled out of court). There were also a couple of comeback attempts. In 1951 in Milwaukee, Florenz Ziegfeld's "Golden Girl" was packing them in once more; she even announced that she was getting gifts from anonymous gentlemen admirers. But now Gilda was somewhat more skeptical than she had been in the old high times. "I didn't know whether to accept the gifts or not," she said. "When I was married and my husband gave me a $7,000 bracelet, I always got the bill next...