> It wouldn't surprise me if public sentiment in the US in 1940 was that such terms were not constitutionally protected, ... Hell, the debate over George Carli

> It wouldn't surprise me if public sentiment in the US in 1940 was that such terms were not constitutionally protected, ... Hell, the debate over George Carlin's "seven dirty words" [0] didn't happen until three decades later (a real "gentleman" would never speak such atrocious words!). I can't even imagine how much was verboten in the '40s. --- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words