Word: filth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birds trying to clean one another of this filth that defies description, and we see birds made tame by terror of it. We find tangled on the sea wrack masses of black filth that are still living birds, and we have seen in oil, when it has concentrated into long black lines, the horrors of black, croaking phantoms that were still birds...
...including Paris Nights, So This Is Paris, Ziffles, True Confessions, obtain a certain insecure circulation by pandering to the suppressed bawdiness of soiled minds. They marshal their pornography under a variety of shams: some affecting the disguise of wit, some the imposture of art. The wit is usually flaccid filth which lacks the forthright virtues of true ribaldry; the art similar to the crude but spirited masterpieces with which anonymous Raphaels adorn the walls of railroad stations...
...event of the baseball season is scheduled for this afternoon at Soldiers Field when the CRIMSON meets the low-minded lampoon at 2 o'clock. Sport experts predict that the CRIMSON will have little trouble in trouncing the filth editors by the traditional score...
Weakened by a long career of debauch the Harvard filth editor were unable to stand against the brilliant open field running of the Crimson nine. At the end of the game Prexy Cooke of the lampoon apologized to President Nichols of the Crimson for the ungentlemanly and unsportsmanlike conduct of his cohorts...
...much an insult to American womanhood as American womanhood is an insult to the drama of today", he has fitly summed up the deplorable intelligence of American audiences today. Just as there are shows which aim to be suggestive, there are audiences which go to the theatre only for filth. Honest dramatic effort is twisted by these perverted minds into the foulest shapes. The play itself is just as sincere an attempt to depict life as it was before they saw it, and yet immediately it becomes the prey of censors and reformers, a danger to public morals...