Word: filth
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Vellucci flooded Cambridge last week with leaflets calling for an immediate ban on "all disgraceful literature on the news stands." Under a big black headline of "ROUSE, YE CITIZENS!," the leaflet contends that "our children are being sold cheap books and magazines, loaded down with filth and obscene language... that are demoralizing our youth...
...leaflet states that "our children are being sold cheap books and magazines, loaded down with filth and obscene language. Trash books are jeopardizing the education of our children--supplementing home work...
...bamboo thicket, on a deserted white strand of Riviera beach, lay Harry's blonde wife Eve and a sinewy French mechanic, making love. Harry's friend squeezed his eyes shut, but his mind ticked on furiously. "How could Eve prostrate herself in that atrocious way! What lunatic filth presumed in that man's upstart mind to lay a finger on her!" Suddenly, he "felt like murder." Harry's friend might not have been so homicidally inclined if he weren't secretly in. love with Eve himself. As for poor old Harry, he was off pounding...
...press time, the Boston censors had taken no action on the book, which has been described as "a bundle of filth" by the San Francisco News. The book concerns the lives of soldiers in Hawaii before...
Errands to Run. Ethel Waters was born in Chester, Pa., the daughter of a Negro girl who was raped at the age of twelve. As she remembers her childhood, it was a continuous round of poverty, filth, lust and violence. By the time she was seven, she had an adult's knowledge of sex. Farmed out by her child-mother and her grandmother to a succession of relatives, she had a childhood "almost like a series of one-night stands...