Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Satire is the aim of the novel, but satire is never quite so sophisticated and lewd as the puerile effusions of the flapperish Cleopatra whose acquaintance we make in perusing the "Diary." She boldly describes her appearance in Rome as the public mistress of Caesar and forthwith begins to criticize Rome, Caesar, and every one else except Antony and a few other of the Roman jeunesse doree whose appetites for wine and illicit love are as strong as hers. Her philosophy is Hedonistic; she proclaims herself a sensualist and not satisfied with the fast pace of the Romans she attempts...
OBSCENE: Filthy, foul, disgusting, offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something that delicacy, purity and decency forbid to be exposed; to be impure, indecent, unchaste, lewd...
...added a hairy pair of goat's legs, but they are rather superfluous in a country that carries 24,000,000 automobiles on its highways. ... The motto seems to be, in the editorial sanctums where all this muck is compounded for public consumption, If it makes good, lewd reading-go the limit. . . . THE GOAT MEN HAVE SCALED THE BARRIERS AND COMMAND THE CITADEL...
...Stephens last week. His decision upheld the Rochester Times-Union in its refusal to print advertising copy of the Amalgamated Furniture Factories, Inc., which tried to make the public believe that it manufactured its own furniture. Newspapermen lauded Justice Stephens and the Times-Union; makers of gewgaws, bunion cures, lewd pictures bit their tongues...
...Jack," said famed Samuel Johnson, "has great variety of talk. Jack is a scholar, Jack has the manners of a gentleman." Jack (John Wilkes, 1727-1797) was also a rowdy, a beerhouse brawler, a blasphemer, a fornicator, a publisher of lewd and libelous literature. He was expelled from the House of Commons, outlawed, deported and cast into prison when, upon his return, King George III refused to pardon him. . . . But Whigs, great, rich, respected, thronged his prison cell, for Jack was a Hero. The freeholders of Middlesex had four times elected him to Parliament and four times the Commons...