Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film company appealed the decision. Last week, answering the suit, the Justice Department completely scuttled the Post Office Department's case by admitting that "the postal cards at issue are neither obscene, lewd, lascivious nor filthy." United Artists has only to go to court and ask that the case be thrown out-a request no judge could deny...
Last May Colonel Johnstone slapped a 10 o'clock weekday curfew on teenagers. At the same time he also went after their mothers. Again and again, he heard complaints that someone had made a lewd remark to a G.I. wife in a PX or pinched her bottom. The trouble was, said the colonel, that too often such women came in two categories-either "provocatively clad" or, if "less young and shapely, disgustingly clad." Last week the colonel clamped down in earnest. From now on, any serviceman's wife who tries to enter a public building on base will...
Then why in heaven's name must every nagging prude of Cato's ilk cry shame, denounce my work as lewd, damning with a look my guileless, simple art, this simple, modern book...
...night at his favorite bar, the Sans-Souci, Bill happened to meet a pretty young prostitute named Dominique. Born in a village near Reims, Dominique had been taken to Paris at 18 by a pimp from Corsica. But after getting into trouble over his other line of business-lewd films-the Corsican had fled Paris. The powers of the milieu had no objection to young Bill's taking over where the Corsican left off. For the next 18 months, as Dominique's "protector," Bill got a slice of her earnings in addition to the $300 a month...
...Bishop of Southwark denounced Magistrate Rose's sentence as "savage and inhuman." Unfortunately, the Widow Christos' case was not the only one. British newspapers were still quivering over the case of a young engaged couple who were haled into court for committing "an act of lewd, obscene and disgusting nature such as to cause offense to diverse of Her Majesty's subjects." The couple's actual crime was nothing more than to kiss each other good night in a parked car. They spent their honeymoon money for their defense and were acquitted-but the judge refused...