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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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The Baseball Network, a joint venture between ABC, NBC and MLB, was effectively smothered in its crib in 1995, and the fallout led to the ABC broadcast flagship cutting ties with the league for a quarter-century.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
18 Mar. 2026
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The longer the wait, the greater the risk of a potentially transformative financial innovation being smothered in the crib.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
18 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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San Francisco’s city attorney has shut down a massage parlor in the Tenderloin that authorities say operated for years as a front for prostitution, following a $275,000 settlement approved by a judge last month.—
Aidin Vaziri,
San Francisco Chronicle,
6 Jan. 2026
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Surveillance photos corroborated in-person visits to the brothel in the 22200 block of Main Street that matched the text message dates and times, the declaration stated.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
19 Mar. 2026
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In the 1830s, for example, thirty-four percent of brothels were within three blocks of a theater.—
Betsy Golden Kellem,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Mar. 2026
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