Word: smuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well, Mr. Markel," said Ochs, "if a tabloid prints it, it is smut; if the Times prints it, it is sociology...
...answer: Crosby failed to understand the "listener's ear." Crosby had another: NBC suffered from "broadcaster's ear." His conclusion: "If the broadcasters insist on censorship, a high form of discrimination is called for. Despite their vigilance, censors still are not keeping smut off the air. At the same time, unintelligent censorship is . . . driving radio writers into a sterile cynicism with no faith in themselves or their industry...
...colonels and bank directors practice an exquisite snobbishness. A boy's standing depends largely on whether his "pater" has "tons of tin" and what expensive delicacies stock his "grub box." The healthy mind in a healthy body, classic goal of public schools, degenerates into a mens corrupted by smut and a corpus battered by flogging...
...Girl from Nantucket (book by Paul Stanford & Harold Sherman; music by Jacques Belasco; lyrics by Kay Two-mey). Offering the season's most cranked-out tunes, most threadbare gags, most feeble-minded smut, and strangest notion of a ballet, The Girl from Nantucket rated -and got from Manhattan reviewers-the critical equivalent of a well-aimed flyswatter...
...Wages of Sin. Cleanliness is a latter-day worry of Confessions' publishers, the four sons of "Captain Billy" Fawcett. Since building the family fortune on the smokehouse smut of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, they have made crime pay (Daring Detective, Startling Detective, Dynamic Detective), profited from pleasing the star-struck (Movie Story, Motion Picture), discovered that respectability is the most...