Word: lewd
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...Joyce’s Ulysses. Well before either come Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, all of which were banned in the United States under the Comstock Law of 1873, prohibiting the sale of “lewd,” “indecent,” “filthy,” or “obscene” materials—and not without reason. Many a perspicacious frat boy has perked up during an otherwise soporific lecture...
PANTS PATROL In Virginia, wearers of low-riding pants that expose their underwear were facing a $50 fine for "lewd or indecent manner" in a proposal that got booted last week by the state senate...
...also do this!” he added, spinning to make a lewd gesture at his on-stage critics and mouth a distinct “fuck...
Meanwhile, he was beginning to lose faith in our AP english class. Without enough time to devote to his papers, he dashed them off. He was disappointed with the grade he received on a creative project (his were somewhat lewd but hysterical epigrams), and the vast majority of his classmates were an in-crowd of theory-spouting women. He didn’t really like them. Although he’d been an A English student, he turned his attention elsewhere...
Despite its immediate masculine visual connotations, the inscription on the giant slab is even more representative of Harvard’s masculine history than the lewd imaginations of 18-year-olds would believe. It speaks, in Chinese characters, of the leaders that Harvard has produced: “Their noble accomplishments are reflected in the worldwide reputation of our Alma Mater as a seat of learning of the highest standards, in the wealthy of valuable contributions in the wide influence its children have exerted in many lands, and in exalted position occupied by the nation in which it is situated...