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I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life-even when it's a kick in the teeth.

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I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life-even when it's a kick in the teeth.

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About Polly Adler

Pearl "Polly" Adler (April 16, 1900 – June 9, 1962) was an American madam and author, best known for her work A House Is Not a Home, which was posthumously adapted into a film of the same name. In 2021, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Debby Applegate published a comprehensive account of Adler's life and times entitled Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age with Doubleday.