Word: vied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magazines most generally excoriated were: Artists and Models, La Vie Parisienne, Hot Dog, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, Cis Weekly-booklets which, with a clutter of others, including Paris Nights, So This Is Paris, Ziffles, True Confessions, obtain a certain insecure circulation by pandering to the suppressed bawdiness of soiled minds. They marshal their pornography under a variety of shams: some affecting the disguise of wit, some the imposture of art. The wit is usually flaccid filth which lacks the forthright virtues of true ribaldry; the art similar to the crude but spirited masterpieces with which anonymous Raphaels adorn...
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...
News is original in a sense, but newspapers are prepared to vie with one another for additional originality in almost anything, so long as they can lay claim...
...dore ou rembrunit Ic tableau de la vie...
Further information concerning the monster parade in Boston which the University contingent will join has been secured. Fourteen organizations, with a total of 12,000 members, will parade. There will be students from Boston College, Boston University and M. I. T. The blare of ten brass bands will vie with the yells of the marchers for supremacy in noise producing powers. The famous Whittall Huzzars of Worcester will march in full regalin, and each of the other delegations will have a distinctive uniform...