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Joseph. The Biblical Joseph was an earnest and moral slave who repulsed the advances of the wife of his master Potiphar, because he was grateful for Potiphar's kindness and wanted no illicit fun in the first place. Joseph's nobility suffers in the theatrical version of him conceived by Playwright Bertram Bloch and performed by George Jessel. They make it quite clear that he balked at adultery not because of lofty scruples, but because he was afraid Neris would ultimately fling him to the crocodiles, her customary farewell to outworn lovers. Actor Jessel, swarthy, expressive young Hebrew...
...Queen rides out so often with the King, in royalty's big, black, softly-purring Daimler. For three years the P'incess has been an old man's darling, may possibly learn in another three years what it is to be a younger brother's slave...
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...Griffin, Ga., Harvey Couch returned to his family home, found John Rogers. 91, ex-slave of the Couch family, living on the old plantation. Rogers in 1870 had loaned his bankrupt owners $4 which was repaid him with...
Prostitution. "Federal inspectors declared that last year 1,000 girls were shipped to Boston by the white slave ring which operates in some 30 New England cities. . . . There are eleven [syndicate] houses in Boston . . . scores of other 'houses.' . . . Boston is swarming with streetwalkers" [TIME...