Word: porno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What the New York (porno) Graphic called "an episode of spectacular interest and importance" closed last week. Emile H. Gauvreau, the Graphic's Managing Editor, resigned...
...majority of publications affected are merely recreative, some frankly porno graphic in character," the now white-whiskered little President wrote. Then, possibly thinking of the U. S. masspress, he added...
...such shoddy human stuff the Shahkta Trial is providing an unprecedented thrill for Soviet Russians-who are deprived of porno-tabloids, sex dramas, and even mystery plays by the wisdom and dictatorship of the Communist Party...
This time, Miss Avery forgot about being a waitress. Her story was published in the N. Y. Evening Porno-Graphic. She was an adventuress, she said, and had without any persuasion from seamen clambered on the Sands from the port of New Orleans, because she was "crazy for adventure." She was in New York to testify to the innocence of the Sands' crew; she said the other four girl stowaways who were found on navy vessels had probably, like herself, been led only by their own inclination to such extravagant behavior...
...Manhattan which needed publicity, it was theirs. They had a suspicion that the constituency of the second largest and indisputably grossest tabloid in Manhattan was not of such a high order of humanity but that it would applaud the spectacle of its pastor and master, hoist with his own porno-petard...