Word: chalkin
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...power of the Watch and Ward in its fight against the spread of obscenity. Happy to take up the scent and go bugling off after a book like "Strange Fruit," or inflexible in their command that a singer stand ramrod stiff during a rendition of "A Huggin' an' A Chalkin'," they remain helpless while the newspapers go into a detailed analysis of the intricacies of an assault. However loud the moral societies complain about the quality of the Boston newspapers, they find that the city editors are too powerful for them, quoting freedom of the press as their license...