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...their point for the future. Summed up Al -E. Gilbert, San Francisco manager of the California Newspaper Publishers Association: "This is a criminal action: the People against so-and-so. Where are the People? We're in the same position we were in when they barred smut comics. We don't like smut comics...
...revolution of 1688, which guaranteed a Protestant monarch, seemed to have fixed everything. But the bloody slogans of church-state and King-Commons still echoed in English ears, and men who no longer wished to hear a bugle or a Mass would listen to Handel, conversation, politics and smut. Often they listened to the Very Rev. Jonathan Swift, Anglican dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, a man who could use the English language like a whip and was, in the words of his latest biographer, John Middleton Murry, "one of the most difficult men that ever God created...
Dropped because they are outmoded are another 500 items. Mostly herbals, these included cypripedium (lady's slipper), once used as a sedative in hysteria and neuralgia; diabetes weed, and corn smut (derived from a fungus), which stimulated uterine contractions in childbirth. Carried over from edition to edition, of course: quack grass...
Your June 27 story on Senator Kefauver's recent smutterings reminds me of Ogden Nash Senator Smoot (Republican Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut...
...Smut, if smitten