Word: krafft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have turned a Wagnerian's hair white in a single act. No Tannhäuser was its central protagonist, but mad King Ludwig of Bavaria (Wagner's patron), who reared and reeled in the costume of Lohengrin. Before him, like something sired by George White out of Krafft-Ebing, pranced a bleached Venus (Nini Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress) with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica to strain the limbo of an experienced psychopath. Meanwhile, at one side...
...your article, "Hold Barred," included in the Radio department of TIME, April 24, be it known to you, sirs, that song lyrics need not be guilty of lingual tergiversation with a Krafft-Ebing tinge in order to get themselves barred from the Great Chains...