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There’s almost this wink at the end where Fanny says, By the way, Charles brought our son to bawdy houses so he could be educated just as Charles was.—
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The city has sued a handful of property owners seeking to label their properties as public nuisances under the state's bawdy house statute.—
Mary Spicuzza,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
31 Oct. 2019
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It is rolled out to show how Washington and London strangled Iranian democracy in its crib, proving that foreign powers cannot be trusted and that the Islamic Republic is, at worst, a necessary evil.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
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My friend was in course of opening up his country house unassisted, and after a fatiguing day discovered that the only practical bed was a child’s affair— long enough but scarcely wider than a crib.—
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3 Mar. 2026
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Kraft also faced misdemeanor solicitation of prostitution charges in 2019 after visiting a massage parlor in Jupiter, Florida; the charges were dropped after the evidence was ruled inadmissible.—
Justin Birnbaum,
Forbes.com,
7 Feb. 2026
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The statement said the business is an unpermitted massage parlor that operated as a brothel.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
6 Jan. 2026
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The trailer, which dropped on March 3, opens with the infamous 2015 incident when the basketball star was found unconscious at Love Ranch, a brothel in Crystal, Nevada.—
Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Mar. 2026
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The 1893 silver crash and the following regional depression left the area in decline, turning it into skid row with brothels, speakeasies, pawn shops and widespread crime.—
Jessica Alvarado Gamez,
Denver Post,
1 Mar. 2026
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