Word: smuts
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...Whose coauthor, Reed Smoot, inspired Ogden Nash's 1930 poem "Invocation": Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh root-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverent occiput . . . Smite, Smoot, Be rugged and rough, Smut if smitten Is front-page stuff...
...conviction of ring distribution of licentious material to juveniles or at protecting the public from being unwillingly exposed to such material. The virtually gratuitous mention of the three unraised questions seemed to indicate that the court may eventually look favorably on laws which specifically attempt to keep smut from children and out of the public...
...once fashionable painter, John Howland, a "Bostonian and Mayflower descendant, educated at Dixwell Latin School and Harvard." He made his first mistake in becoming an artist; his second was to leave-together with his corny canvases-a portfolio of pornographic sketches. His daughter and heir destroy this Back Bay smut. The Auchincloss irony? That the smut just might have restored the reputation of Howland's square work in today's crooked intellectual auction room...
...entreporneurs of Grove Press have at last struck real pay dirt, the anti-Comstock lode of lewd literature. It should make queasy readers reach for their Turns, which as everybody knows, is smut spelled backward...
None of the obscenity cases promises to answer lower-court prayers for clarification of last term's Ginzburg decision. But two may clarify the doctrine of scienter (to know), the requirement that a smut seller must have "guilty knowledge" that his wares are obscene before he is criminally liable. In a New York case, Times Square Bookstore Clerk Robert Redrup was convicted of selling paperbacks titled Lust Pool and Shame Agent to a plainclothes cop who asked him why he sold such "garbage." Said Redrup: "There's worse stuff around." Redrup argues that his comment failed to prove...