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Prostitution and Antiprostitution
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...even modest size had its bordello district. The more expensive bordellos in major cities were elaborate...legalizing and regulating bordellos, an innovation adopted in...prevalence of prostitution and bordellos. Prodded by public opinion...
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Disorderly House
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...the offense involves a specific type of place, such as a bordello or gaming house. The offenses are divided into four classes...disorderly. A house where drugs are sold quietly or where a bordello is discreetly operated would be considered an endangerment...
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Sex and the Military
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...who were described as “disease spreaders and friends of the enemy,” and led to government closing of bordellos in New Orleans, Memphis, and a host of other cities. In this case, military needs and policies carried into the civilian...
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Mesa: Recreation
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...its height, there were three saloons, a boarding house, a general store, blacksmith shop, brewery, schoolhouse, and bordello. Along the finger of the Sonoran Desert that points across the East Valley, a smorgasbord of desert succulents can be encountered...
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Scott Joplin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...left home in his early teens to seek his fortune in music. He lived in St. Louis (1885-93), playing in saloons and bordellos. In 1894 he moved to Sedalia, Mo., and played second cornet in a local band. For the next two years Joplin toured with...
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ITALIAN
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...pasta , pizza , ravioli , spaghetti , tagliatelle , vermicelli . (4) A variety of social words, including alfresco , bimbo , bordello , bravo , condottiere , confetti , fiasco , ghetto , gigolo , graffiti , imbroglio , mafia , piazza , regatta . Some loans...
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Organized Crime
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...x2014;lured innocent girls from American small towns, port cities, and foreign countries to become slaves in the cities' bordellos. Again, the specific term “organized crime” was not used, though the concept, with its exaggerations...
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Fort Smith
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...supply point during the 1848 gold rush; the lawless area was cleaned up (1870s) by "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker , but Bordello Row and other reminders are celebrated today. The Fort Smith National Historic Site includes the Old Fort Museum and Judge...
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Capote, Truman
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...stories, and Local Color (1950) collects travel sketches. House of Flowers (1954) is a musical play set in a West Indies bordello. The Muses Are Heard (1956) is a witty account of his travels with the black cast of Porgy and Bess through Russia. In...
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Barry Goldwater
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...from the California Gold Rush fields. They discovered that there were easier ways to make a fortune - such as operating a bordello and bar. They also founded a small general store, J. Goldwater & Bro., in La Paz in 1867. Soon the brothers opened...
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