Word: bernarr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comedy drama" called The Drag, after being barred in Bayonne, N. J., last week disbanded its cast of 62 players, not daring to enter New York City. That was some comfort for Mr. Sumner, whose attention was further occupied last week by his $100,000 damage suit against Publisher Bernarr Macfadden's daily pornoGraphic. The Graphic, dirtiest daily in the U. S., had advocated legislation to stamp out "Comstockism and Sumnerism...
...THAW BREAKS LOOSE!" screamed the Bernarr Macfadden pornoGraphic tabloid last week, even as the Browning-Peaches story guttered. For this there was not even the excuse that the public does not know all there is to know about Harry K. Thaw. The Graphic pretended that its story would be a "warning" to "young girls" not to go out with Mr. Thaw. What maid, wife or widow needs further warning against Harry Thaw...
...even this sufficed. Bernarr Macfadden personally drew his pen and signed the following statements about the Browning-Peaches case...
...This zeal has never wholly died. The numerous Macfadden daughters are buxom as can be and have never been ashamed to pose as their father's prize exhibits. Nevertheless, it was inevitable that this apostle of the corporeal should find how well the U. S. form repays its exploiters. Bernarr Macfadden got into publishing and fell among shrewd businessmen...
...cult must have a shrine or citadel. Bernarr Macfadden built his at Spottswood, N. J., "The Physical Culture City." Pilgrims groaned when they found they must pay board and yet fast for two weeks. But the city flourished, perhaps on compensations which the New York World misunderstood when it attacked the city as a nest of impropriety and license. These attacks put the city out of business, nor could its Sultan retrieve damages from the World in court. The times were narrow, oppressive. Even a chain of Macfadden lunchrooms failed, all save three, after "revolutionizing the restaurant business" so that...