Word: chatterley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Enthusiasm. One wartime U.S. visitor was impressed by the prevalence of sexy books in Karachi. "In one dismal hotel," he recalled, "the hall porter was reading Jurgen. The night clerk was reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and the manager was reading Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. The food was bad, too, but I never found out what the chef had on his mind." A Karachi professor asked another U.S. visitor to send him Forever Amber. "I'm interested," he said, "because I have a beautiful young daughter...
Author Slobodkin has an artist's eye for significant detail and the kind of gossipy fluency that makes many women's letters easy reading. He has also managed to smuggle into print (suitably disguised) a verb seldom seen in polite English prose since Lady Chatterley's Lover. In fact, Slobodkin has assimilated himself so completely to the somewhat rancid life of his crewmates that some readers may feel that they have listened to a five-hour monologue by a seafaring stablehand...
...Lady Chatterley, the late D. H. Lawrence's famed free-loving heroine, had one account of her conduct upheld. New York State's Court of Special Sessions considered The First Lady Chatterley (tepid first version of Lady Chatterley's Lover), found by a 2-to-1 decision that there was "reasonable doubt" of its obscenity...
Past Masters. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Mrs. Joseph Pearlman, saying that she had been married ten years and "should know the facts of life," sued to make her 78-year-old stepfather return her copy of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover...
...early '30s a later version of Lady Chatterley, with all the blanks in the four-letter words filled out, was published in Italy, banned in the U.S. and England. Alfred Knopf promptly published an expurgated, practically pointless version...