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A stern woman with short gray hair and heavy red lipstick, wearing a black police-like uniform with a tie, chews on a dark cigar with red drips on it.

A stern woman with short gray hair and heavy red lipstick, wearing a black police-like uniform with a tie, chews on a dark cigar with red drips on it.

from England 1950s, in upper-class society, the head of institutional police force, full-length utterly frontal nude, completely emphasizing bustiness: the stoker’s or carter’s hand-grip of a big woman in a black, short-skirted uniform. Despite a bust that would have done credit to a Victorian barmaid, she was rather thickly built than fat and her iron-grey hair was cropped short. Her face was square, stern, and pale, and her voice deep. A smudge of lip-stick laid on with violent inattention to the real shape of her mouth was her only concession to fashion, and she rolled or chewed a long black cheroot, unlit, between her teeth. As she talked she had a habit of removing this, staring intently at the mixture of lip-stick and saliva on its mangled end, and then replacing it more firmly than before. Mehr sehen