Word: arabian
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...General Andrews' duties as U. S. Prohibition head had been added the job of U. S. literary censor. Last fortnight New York customs authorities had held up imported, unexpurgated editions of the Arabian Nights and the Decameron, acting under Section 305 of the Tariff Act, which forbids importation of indecent printed matter. Publishers protested, argued that these were standard classics, immune as such...
...several years imported through the Port of New York without question. He added that the Treasury Department was giving the matter of allegedly obscene importations thorough study, and would, as promptly as possible, promulgate a set of regulations covering the subject. Further importations of the questioned editions of the Arabian Nights and the Decameron were ordered suspended until the announcement of the Treasury Department's findings...
That students of comparative government saw absolute monarchy operating in Siam, paternalism in the Arabian desert, Fascism in Italy (where Mussolini greeted them wearing steel mail under his frock coat...
...simply, occasionally with power, always with insight, often in words assembled like so many pearls; but not, on the whole, in a manner to sustain interest. Apparently the abridgment was intended to give the reader all the dynamiting and slaughter at the expense of paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course?like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book is simply what its author pleases the public shall read...
...Arabian Nightmare is frankly a "fantastic comedy" (i.e. farce) of two variously aged spinstresses who quit Amesbury, Mass., for a glimpse of sheiks and harems in the desert. There they are tumbled about by means of a superabundance of stage gags so long standardized that the Manhattan first nighters knew just where to laugh. The surprise of the performance was Helen Lowell. In the serious part of the wife in God Loves Us earlier this season she won praise. Now she comes prancing on to the stage in a comic swimming suit, her face plastered with cosmetic...