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...Matter of an indecent, lewd, lascivious, obscene, libelous, scurrilous, defamatory or threatening character" is barred from the U. S. mails and the sender is subject to a fine of not more than $5,000 or not more than five years imprisonment or both- Section 212, U. S. Penal Code...
...books, or the heroes of one's favorite comic strip. Better are literary allusions or foreign quotations. But really the best are those that pun gently, or carry hidden some delicate and awful meaning. Choice examples of this from other years are "Titus A. Drum" for example, or "Lewd Fellows of a Basser Sort", "Twelve Knights in a Bathroom", or "Virginibus Puerisque...
...content with these five columns or more of smugness, you must print a lewd picture on page 40. Actress West, a nasty creature at best, is pictured with her dress slipping down...
...This play is written in the same spirit, but without the humor. The Queen and the mariner are represented as in love with one another, much to the regal irritation of Kind Ferdinand; costumed in his nightie. The queen is a teaser; one never knows whether her love was lewd or purely playful. The King sends Columbus off to discover America just too soon. These ponderous problems are interpreted, well enough, by Frances Starr and Reginald Mason. There is a joke about the Nights of Columbus. The Mulberry Bush. Dramatist Edward Knoblock discusses divorce with some sagacity, some...
Satire is the aim of the novel, but satire is never quite so sophisticated and lewd as the puerile effusions of the flapperish Cleopatra whose acquaintance we make in perusing the "Diary." She boldly describes her appearance in Rome as the public mistress of Caesar and forthwith begins to criticize Rome, Caesar, and every one else except Antony and a few other of the Roman jeunesse doree whose appetites for wine and illicit love are as strong as hers. Her philosophy is Hedonistic; she proclaims herself a sensualist and not satisfied with the fast pace of the Romans she attempts...