Word: perverters
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Pleasure Man was a ridiculous and stupid play relating apparently the trite story of a backstage Don Juan; actually its purpose was to exploit, not study, homosexualism in its most blatant form. A party was given on the stage by one pervert for his fellows; here Mae West provided her actors with shrill obscenities to shriek. The audience, more prurient even than the playwright, found these interludes funny or exciting; they laughed with weird crescendoes...
...insult to the distinguished memories of two great men to publish the fact that Edward Holton James of Boston is their nephew [TIME, Aug. 22]. Imagine philosophical William James parading the streets to pervert justice for a Bolshevist fishmonger and a Bolshevist ditchdigger, both of them murderers, both of them anarchists ! Imagine gentle Henry James, that master of manners and nicety, bawling out disorderly epithets at policemen, judges and governors! I say it is a sin against a fine tradition for newspapers and for TIME to harp on the fact that this rowdy roisterer, this half-baked "intellectual," this "radical...
Critics have said in effect: "This Brancusi is an artistic pervert," while Artist Brancusi once said, "With this form I could move the universe...
...building stood adjacent to a mosque. Local Moslems took council. Were shadowy Christian pie-throwers to shuffle oversize feet, thumb noses, within nine paces of the shrine of Allah? Were milk-faced movie harlots to pervert the yearnings of Mohammedans for the swart-skinned houris of Paradise...
...Near the black mouth of the prison mine at Lansing, Kansas, a kindly warden stood conversing with his deputy, suddenly turned with tautened lips to watch the sullen file of oil-skinned prisoners shuffle down into the shaft. Defiant of 13 unarmed guards, a seared murderer, a slack-jawed pervert, another and another, turned to gaze with loathing at the man who held four of their number captives to be chastised like beasts for complaining at lack of sheets...