Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luminous, Leggy & Lewd...
They can draw them or paint them, and show them in the galleries, but if you photograph one in the gallery and print the picture in your magazine, TIME will be banned as indecent, lewd and pornographic. Rather silly...
...Pennsylvania, the State Board of Censors (for movies) had moved to take over supervision of TV as well. In Chicago, Police Captain Harry Fulmer, currently engaged in a crusade against "lewd publications," offered to broaden his field to include TV. In Columbus, Ohio, State Senator Edwin F. Sawicki proposed that the State Department of Education "examine and censor . . . televised pictures on the same basis as films are censored today...
...Toro, the bewildered victim, is nominally "owned" by a lewd fat man, Vince Vanneman, who fixes every one of his fights on a coast-to-coast tour that Eddie promotes into a triumphal march. Nick, the powerful and deadly racketeer who actually owns El Toro as he owns Eddie, also owns the aging heavyweight champion, Gus Lennert. Gus is soon to retire, after drawing one big purse for getting massacred by the challenger, Buddy Stein, and another for doing a nose dive before El Toro. Nick has all the elements nicely calculated except his wife, Ruby, a ladylike tramp...
...ninny, gives masterly double and triple takes (and even a few one-and-a-half takes, a Horton refinement). He waggles his square head in an idiotic semaphore of self-satisfaction, leers with lips that fit together like two nicked razor blades, and brings down the house with small, lewd giggles...