Word: lewdness
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...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...
...doesn't run the sizzling sexpots. When the U.T. was abuilding 30 years ago, its owners had to promise Harvard not to show anything that might give the kiddies lewd ideas. He also avoids the teen-age monster rubbish because it attracts too many little roughnecks...
...prose theater (its star playwrights: Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan). After a devastating fire, the theater was rebuilt in 1809, later named the Royal Italian Opera House. It featured not only opera but all-night masked balls whose patrons, wrote a shocked reporter, "were truly the disciples of the lewd fiend Belial." One gay dawn in 1856, the place burned down again, scattering and sobering the disciples...
...banned under a state statute forbidding the sale of material which is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent, or which contains pictures of nude or partially denuded figures likely to provoke or arouse lust or passion in persons below...