Word: lewdness
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Circular letters explaining the advantages of a home for unmarried mothers are lewd, lascivious, obscene; and hence are improper matter for the U. S. mails. So said two Federal courts in Texas, while sentencing Dr. John C. Dysart, proprietor of the Queen Anne Private Home at El Paso, Tex., to five years in the Leavenworth Penitentiary and fining him $2,500. Proprietor Dysart, it seems, had sent out some form letters, intended for physicians; but several of the letters fell into the feminine hands of El Paso schoolteachers. Irate, they called in the law. Proprietor Dysart was found guilty...
...Chief" Markham, as the boys call him, loves his friends, trusts them, lets them run the government. The result is the incubation of corruption in oil and in the so-called Department of Public Health which is so crooked that it even gets graft out of roach powder. Murders, lewd women, drunken revels, coarse dialogue are thrown in to spice the story. The scandals begin to leak out in Washington. Senatorial investigations threaten, but the "Chief" stands by his friends. There is, of course, a woman in the story. A sort of Platonic affection grows up between...
...highly nervous woman, who is bored with her dull husband, is the central figure. She has a lover who deserts. From him she turns to a Negro lawyer. Finally she takes poison. The play was frank, at times lewd, but never sensationally so. It was not the dirt of which the audience disapproved; it was the dullness. Mary Blair, able heroine of many of Eugene O'Neill's best plays, had the lead. Her performance was unaccountably inept. She fled the cast after the opening performance...
...buzzing about as a best seller in the literary world since its publication last year. A great many people suspected that the document was not entirely authentic; but, on the other hand, a great many wiseacres, particularly in England, welcomed it as a spirited contemporary portrait of our delightfully lewd ancestors. It is now time for all those who suspected a take to be gently proud of their perspicuity and for those who were taken in to admire the delicacy and completeness of the art that could deceive them...
...implications of the affair are so slight that their shortcomings probably account for Miss Hall's disappointment. It certainly does not mean that our ancestors were not lewd. They were of a very impulsive and concupiscent nature; for that matter, so are their descendants. It does mean that cleverness and an eye for the put lie taste can still succeed as they deserve to; and it also means that it is high time for the mystery of "The Young Visiters" to be cleared up so that literary gossipers can finally find some rest in a world that has little respect...