Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast between the drawn and serious face [of Mr. Burton] and the accompanying fantastic and lewd deformity was so extravagant that ... it made of the plaintiff a preposterously ridiculous spectacle, and the obvious mistake only added to the amusement. . . . The plaintiff has been substantially enough ridiculed to be in a position to complain. . . . Possibly anyone who chooses to stir such a controversy in court cannot have been very sensitive originally, but that is a consideration for the jury...
...customs officials promptly confiscated the pessaries under the Tariff Act of 1930. That law is the result of a Federal statute which the late gorilla-like prude, Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), rammed down Congress' throat in 1873. These statutes lump contraceptives with abortifacients, smutty writings and lewd picture postcards as "obscene," and forbid anyone to import, mail or ship them across state boundaries...
Indeed Subscriber Belger does not understand the meaning of the word "wench." Webster's New International Dictionary defines "wench": "A girl or maiden; young woman; damsel. A girl of the peasant class; also a female servant." Archaic is meaning No. 4: "A lewd woman; a strumpet...
Sued for Separation. Edward J. Reilly. 53, owlish, bulky chief defense counsel at the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann; by Fleurette Reilly, 31, his fifth wife (according to Fleurette Reilly) ; in White Plains, N. Y. Charges: abusive treatment, drunkenness, "association with women of lewd and questionable habits.'' Lawyer Reilly had previously filed a separation suit of his own, charging that his wife tore his clothes, broke his glasses...
...Barrymore Gaddess of Greenwich, Conn. Somehow Hearst's Evening Journal had got hold of the transcript of Husband Gaddess' divorce proceedings, which were heard by a horrified referee in private chambers. It included 443 dictaphone records of telephone conversations between Jack & Mrs. Gaddess. The referee considered them "lewd in thought beyond belief . . . greater evidence of depravity than the actual commission of the acts." With insinuations that most of the conversations were unprintable, the Journal delightedly printed some 20 columns.* Sample...