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...stopped distributing Mencken's Christmas Story-a timely tale of a bunch of bums who could not resist singing hymns when they got drunk. Decided the firm: it was "not a suitable book for us to handle." Mencken readily agreed: "I simply can't imagine anything so ribald being circulated by ecclesiastical publishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Movers & Shakers | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...Shoe Fits--At the Shubert. A new musical based on the familiar fable of Cinderella. The fairy tale has been transformed into a general hodge-podge of ribald humor, some of its funny and some not so good. Florence Desmond gives the show life with her slyly amusing touches transported from England, but the dialogue is weak. All in all, it's about a 50-50 chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekend Amusement Calendar | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...Seldes from the Greek of Aristophanes; produced by James Light. & Max Jelin) is built, as all the world knows, on a great satiric idea-that of having women end a long war by locking their mates out of their bedrooms until they give up fighting. Moreover, Aristophanes' lusty, ribald spirit still vibrates after 2,300 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 28, 1946 | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...Ribald allusions to "Doctor de Kruif" (Bacteriologist de Kruif has a Ph.D., no M.D.) were a stock joke at the A.M.A. Convention last fortnight. Last week in the A.M.A. Journal Federal Narcotics Commissioner H. J. Anslinger viewed with alarm De Kruif's latest discovery: Demerol ("God's Own Medicine-1946," Reader's Digest for June), a painkilling drug which acts much like morphine but is not, said De Kruif, habit-forming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: God's Own Narcotic | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...News, with Hearst's Mirror and Bernarr Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Passing of a Giant | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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