Word: schundund
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...Schund und Schmutz." Herr Doktor Wilhelm Kuelz, Minister of Interior, introduced before the Reichstag last week his Schundund Schmutz (Trash and Smut) bill creating a committee of five censors, the adverse vote of any four of which would suffice to suppress any book or magazine. Straightway the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed...
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