Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colorado, (Tex.) Weekly Record appeared the, following advertisement: "FOR RENT-Notwithstanding we have not tolerated drunks, gambling, nor lewd women since July, 1935, and it is easy to verify that statement, there are people who tell newcomers that the Alamo Hotel is not a suitable place to occupy with their families on that account. That is part of our punishment for tolerating such for the few years we did so. See our apartments and get rates...
...threatening, intimidating and coercing its employes." But a new wrinkle in unfair labor practice was contained in the complaint that the company was luring good unionists away from union meetings with a kind of entertainment the union could not offer. The coal company, charged the United Miners, "did procure lewd and immoral women to perform free, indecent exhibitions known as strip-&-tease dances, and to otherwise engage in gratuitous, licentious conduct at times when union meetings were scheduled for the purpose of enticing its employes from attending such meetings...
...Every girl--colleen, pardon me -- is a type; if she's rude, she is a hoyden; if lewd, a minx; if lovely, a nymph; if lovely and black-eyed, a houri (that comes from an Arabian word, he parenthesized with a smack of his lips). Now, you may think there is no difference between a vixen, for which are wrongly substituted the obsolete words 'virago' and 'termagant,' and a shrew. But there is! A shrew is always a brawling woman, while a vixen is merely bad-tempered...
Nevertheless at noon on May 1, Commissioner Moss dillingered New York burlesque by announcing he was renewing the licenses of none of New York's 14 burlesque houses because "the type of performance, the language used, the display of nudity are coarse, vulgar and lewd and endanger public morality . . . and are a disgrace to the people of the City of New York...
...bunch were consciously ambitious, felt themselves capable of big things; all of them were determined to do better for themselves than their parents had. Their tastes soon began to differentiate them. Runt Plotkin, toughest of the crowd, embarrassed them by his actions with girls, which spoke louder than their lewd chatter. He drifted off to become a precocious hack-driver. First of the bunch to go further than the universally-allowed petting were Estelle and Sol, the chesty athlete. That went on till they got a scare, then they broke...