Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rice powder and rouge to conceal; the audience watched the faces for signs that would show the near collapse of one or another of the youths. If the audience tired of watching it was amused by seeing two buffoons push one another over, spit at one another, make lewd jokes, or it could eat popcorn and ice-cream. The contestants shuffled on, around and around...
...United States claims at least one distinction, questionable as it may be, among the company of nations; however lewd its gangsters, it has at least an adamantine body of censors. The drama, literature, and articles of wearing apparel have all come under the knife, and practically every work which recognizes the existence of a difference between the sexes has been threatened, if not actually banned. The most recent example of this is the case, now in progress, of "United States vs. Ulysses," now being heard in New York by Judge Woolsey. The whole matter of keeping from the public James...
There was no question of lewd Phineas' guilt. He had admitted everything. But if Britons should allow natives to try them, there would soon be no Britons in Africa. Admiral Evans, now acting High Commissioner for Bechuanaland, and the Resident Commissioner Col. Charles Fernand Rey, went up with their Marines to try Chief Tshekedi...
Regent of the Bamangwato tribe is a handsome young man known as Tshekedi. He was educated in Britain at great expense, speaks English like an actor. His administration had been exemplary but, faced with the case of lewd Phineas Mackintosh, he ordered him tried by a native court, had him flogged within an inch of his life...
...corps of lawyers, argued his case most fluently, adding considerably to the brilliance of the scene by appearing throughout the trial in a pair of pink-striped pajamas from Bond Street. The hero of the Antarctic mopped his brow under the withered fig-tree and gave judgment: 1) Lewd Phineas was banished from Bechuanaland forever. 2) For daring to punish a white man, Chief Tshekedi was removed from the Bamangwato tribe, exiled from his tribal lands. Admiral Evans pronounced the verdict on Chief Tshekedi as sympathetically as possible...