id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005456979 Lord, Daniel A. (Daniel Aloysius), 1888-1955. What is decent literature? 1940 .txt text/plain 13622 834 80 Because with the collabora- tion of other men interested in the good of my country and mankind I asked the motion pictures to veto these things , I am anthro- pologically fascinating and immortally funny. For as there are human beings who peddle opium to high-school children, and unspeak- able people who teach little children the ways of vice, and eternal Fagins running schools for the education of young pick- pockets and thieves, so there are men and women who will write dirty books and edit dirty magazines. cache/_005456979.txt txt/_005456979.txt