Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lewd & Indecent." Comstock was strolling down a street in midtown Manhattan one May day in 1913 when the naked blonde vision, displayed in the window of an art gallery, caught his horrified gaze. Storming in, Comstock flashed his police badge and roared: "There's too little morn and too much maid. Take her out!" The gallery refused. Next day the story was splashed across the front pages of Manhattan's dailies, and the picture had become famous. Enraged cries of "lewd and indecent" were met with the New York Times's indignant defense that the picture...
...from material supplied by columnists or reporters. But the King of Leer became increasingly insistent on boudoir reporting that, as one associate testified, "would make readers say. 'This was something I never knew until now.' " In 1954, testified Hollywood Prostitute Ronnie Quillan. Harrison told her: "The more lewd and lascivious the story, the more colorful for the magazine...
Confidential's Publisher Robert Harrison, his two sisters and three other associates, all under a Los Angeles indictment on counts of criminal libel, distributing lewd and obscene material and disseminating illegal information about abortions and male rejuvenation, walked into the Manhattan D.A.'s office one day last week and voluntarily surrendered. But it was only a technical surrender. As California's Governor Goodwin Knight signed extradition papers for the lot and fired them off to New York, Harrison & Co. said they would oppose extradition, retorted with a $2,047,125 suit against California's Attorney General...
...Angeles County grand jury last week landed the first solid blow on the peeping eye of Confidential's Publisher Robert Harrison. Harrison, already beset by $28.5 million in libel suits, and ten confederates were indicted on charges of conspiracy to publish criminal libel, to distribute lewd and obscene material and to disseminate illegal information about abortions and male rejuvenation. As California Assistant Attorney General Clarence Linn said, perhaps optimistically: "In my opinion, Confidential is finished...
...stag magazines, lewd and pornographic literature deadening the moral and spiritual strength of our youth, or is it our low morals and spiritual weaknesses that make obscenity and smut bestselling stuff...