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...Recognized difference between children and adults in considering civil suit. A dealer can be prosecuted if the purchaser of an obscene book is under 18 years old, but only after obscenity has been legally established by suit against the book. In the case of magazines and lewd pictures, however, age is irrelevant...

Author: By David W. Cudhea and Ronald P. Kriss, S | Title: 'Banned in Boston'--Everything Quiet? | 12/5/1952 | See Source »

Cantabrigians can still see Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms" at the Brattle Minus a few lewd words and questionable pantomimes. The two Cambridge policewomen who reviewed the production Wednesday night found little deviation from the morality code and all was "very amiably settle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Policewomen Pass On O'Neil's 'Prostitutes' | 5/23/1952 | See Source »

...GANGSTER STUDIOS, Treiber had pointed to the school in the Pankow area of Berlin as a horrible example of just how the West brings up and trains its schoolchildren. In the Pankow school, he wrote, children have been found armed with brass knuckles and guns, while others write lewd poems which they circulate through an organization they call the "Bureau of Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Geography Lesson | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

Feeney usually punctures each attack with an "everyone knows that." His favorite description of hecklers are, "sexually degenerate, fairy, lewd, obscene, dirty, filthy, rotten, pawns, pimps, and frauds." He calls his supporters, both male and female, "dear...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Father Feeney, Rebel from Church, Preaches Hate, Own Brand of Dogma to All Comers | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...show-off. He is found in clusters, and his natural habitat is the college campus. He enjoys the raccoon coat, the letter sweater, and the old rat-eaten loafers. A battered hat usually adorns his head, and his tie is better hidden than displayed, as it either depicts lewd scenes, or squirts water at unlucky admirers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men Preen Feathers As Females Snicker | 5/11/1950 | See Source »

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