Word: smuts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Omitting a record of the many revues, that contained more smut than all these plays rolled together, and omitting, also, a number of the revivals that dealt largely with incest, syphilis, sexual intercourse, murder, degeneracy and concupiscence generally, we find that the above list represents considerably more than a third of all the plays produced during the season...
...have migrated to the northern islands of Japan from Manchuria, a remnant of Neolithic stock. They are taller than the Japanese, heavier-built; their hairiness has been exaggerated from the fact that the men never shave and the women, admiring hirsute embellishment, daub themselves with mustache designs in pot-smut. They are bear-worshipers, non-agricultural...
...natural talent. We have headed this column with a line from one of his little songs which describes the abilities of the man and the ostrich and points out that our great politicians would have a hard time in doing as well. Mr. Lupino is not of the wisecracking, smut-slinging school. All his laughs depend on sound principles of burlesque and a certain ridiculous irresponsibility that makes him seem at all times spontaneous. Possibly you may not sympathize as we do with Mitzi, but if you don't like Mr. Lupino we shall wait for you some night...
...vicious smut of discontented sheepherders...
Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang alternates between the urbane pleasantries of high-school debauches and the vicious smut of discontented sheepherders: Fly-speckled jokes, limaceous verses, epigrams as forlornly disorderly as the cigar ashes left behind the curtain of a cheap hotel room by its last occupant. La Vie Parisienne presents pornography that often cannot be understood without a modicum of sophistication or an understanding of the more bizarre manifestations of the sexual impulse ; its drawings are occasionally clever. In these respects, it is superior to competitors. English translations, however, accompany the more salacious jocosities, and these invariably emasculate...