Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lewd Delight. In Paris, peacemakers were astonished by the Wallace outburst. Said one: "Imagine the glee at the Soviet Embassy"-reminding an observer of Poet Ralph Hodgson's poem...
Picture the lewd delight...
...year. The bill, which differed little from the existing draft law, was okayed by the Army. But it horrified Colorado's lumbering Senator Ed Johnson. Cried he: "Only beardless youths will be conscripted. . . ." Every "boy" drafted will be "thrown in the path of diseased prostitutes and lewd women" in the "foulest human cesspools...
Geoffrey Grigson, editor of England's New Verse magazine: "Nothing new has happened in this war. Men have been tortured, women have been murdered, explosives have exploded. . . . That helps one, not to be indifferent, which is impossible, but not to be taken in ... by the lewd rhetoric of a war. . . . In this country, the Black Militia of the Pen ask where the war poets are; and they only mean, where are the thumps on the tub, the morale poems...
...once a barrage of furious criticism opened up against Moss. The man who had called Trio "lewd, lascivious and immoral" was himself called "dictatorial," "bigoted," "one-man censor."* In the growing uproar, 19 organizations denounced Moss. Some demanded that Mayor LaGuardia fire...