Word: porno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Porno-Petard...
Other headlines scattered through a single issue of the porno-Graphic : "THAW ATTACKS PRETTY GIRL IN HIS LUXURIOUS ROOMS" (the pretty girl" was a dance hall "hostess," one Marcia Estardus); "LURED TO His HIDDEN HOME AND CLUBBED" (the "hidden home" was an ordinary apartment. Miss Estardus knew who Mr. Thaw was and went to his apartment voluntarily. She was not "clubbed," but said that Mr. Thaw had beaten her with a hair brush which she wrenched from him.) "THAW BITES BROADWAY GIRL" (This was a less imaginative headline. Miss Estardus did indeed allege that Mr. Thaw flung...
...come to Mr. Macfadden's aid to spare him two years of hard labor for an article on "Growing to Manhood." But since then the latitude permitted "educational" matter has increased and Mr. Macfadden has doubtless forgotten the $2,000 fine he paid in the dismal dawn of this porno-glorious century...
Bernarr Macfadden's New York Evening ("Porno") Graphic has been publishing a series of articles on the Negro, spiced up with intimate glimpses of Harlem and faked pictures of lynchings. Obviously, such material was intended to boost the Negro circulation of the Graphic. But the sheetlet, in its exuberance for the sensational, went too far and stepped on the toes of many a Negro when it set about to flay Booker Taliaferro Washington. Said the Graphic: "There are not lacking thousands of intelligent Negroes who believe that Booker T. Washington, consciously or unwittingly, betrayed his color and his kind...
...Manhattan, the Valentino case had given Bernarr Macfadden's Evening ("porno") Graphic opportunity to drool libidinously. According to its headlines and full- full-page accounts, Rudolph Valentino had been poisoned by a jealous female, had been pummeled by a jealous male, had been shot in a supper-club quarrel...