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Word: smut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...also gives him a literary focus that few of his U.S. colleagues could control. Classics and Commercials is not for those who like to get comfortable with a detective story or a runaway bestseller, but if it were read seriously by those who flipped the pages for smut in Hecate County, U.S. literary taste might be raised a notch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caviar for the General | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...never found "lying in a pool of blood," nor "badly decomposed" in the woods. The Times was net always so squeamish. Ochs once told an editor who complained that a certain story was too smutty for the Times to print: "When a tabloid prints it, that's smut. When the Times prints it, that's sociology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Without Fear or Favor | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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