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Word: obscenest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tramp Abroad he calls this nude "the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses. ... It isn't that she is naked and stretched out on a bed-no, it is the attitude of one of her arms and hand. If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl. ... I saw young girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her charms with a pathetic interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

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