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Word: trollop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...between, Director Garnett fashioned the second episode in Universal's resuscitation of drowsy Marlene Dietrich. Traipsing through the islands of the East Indies with a trollop's parasol and two larcenous bodyguards (Broderick Crawford and Mischa Auer), she encounters a well-groomed wing of the U. S. Navy, casts languorous glances at a promising lieutenant, sings a dolorous chant beginning: "See those shoulders broad and glorious? See that smile? That smile's notorious. You can bet your life the man's in the Navy,"* at a cafe conducted by wheezing Billy Gilbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 18, 1940 | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...STATION WAGON MURDER-Milton Propper- Harper ($2). Extortion is loose among Philadelphia's summering socialites and the body of Mrs. Eleanor Munson is found stabbed, in a station wagon. Trollop or no, Mrs. M. had a history that took Detective Tommy Rankin hotfoot to the scene of an adulterous Maryland tryst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Murders | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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