Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affinity ended there. From time to time the Statesman had to square itself with readers by slapping him down editorially. A one-time Mormon who now belongs to no church, he railed at Christmas, funerals, Sundays. When Catholics found it rough reading and complained, he promised last winter to offend them no more...
...opened the window and let in the fresh air." Poor Hardy, mild-mannered and at heart probably the least coarse of British novelists, thereupon threw up his hands. He told his U.S. publishers to withdraw the book if they saw fit-"it is so much against my wish to offend the tastes of the American public." Jude was Hardy's last (many now think it his best) novel. Its reception "completely cured" him, he said, of further interest in fiction. He turned back to verse, his original love, and wrote little else during his remaining 30-odd years...
Many editors are aware of W.N.U. chiefly as a Chicago editorial office whose boss, Farnham Dudgeon, helps them fill their papers. Dudgeon steers his writers away from controversy, into innocuous, bland writing that will offend neither Republican nor Democratic editors. For papers which get their W.N.U. service ready-printed, and thus have no advance editorial control over its content, he takes special pains to handle religion, politics, etc. so that nothing positive is said. The most popular feature is the "improved" Sunday-school lesson written by a Moody Institute...
...hillbilly ballad The Martins and the Coys is a burlesque of backwoods feuding which will delight lovers of radio rurality and of Paul Webb's mountaineer cartoons, and offend those who think such caricature as insulting as the hush-mah-mouf kind of comic contempt for Negroes. All the Cats Join In is a jukebox setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those...
...with which he assassinated the tyrant. In answer, sardonically, he says, 'From three medical students in exchange for the address of a Spanish whore.' The Army objected to the word 'Spanish,' explaining that Spain was a neutral country whom we did not wish to offend. They suggested as an alternative that I substitute a Greek whore, Greece, I presume, not being considered neutral and therefore capable of being offended without danger...