Word: booked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particular interest to students of Italian painting is the antiphonary, the bequest of W. V. R. Berry '81. It is a sumptuous book of 346 vellum pages, each covered with liturgical text and musical notations. At the beginning of each phrase is traced a large initial, within which are illuminations by Lippo Vanni, active between...
...relieved of its present position as the butt of literary circles throughout the world. The bill has been reported favorably to the State Legislature to amend the law relative to obscene literature, which, as it now stands, has been responsible for the banning of about fifty books in the past year. The new measure would entirely eliminate books from jurisdiction under this law, and a book would be judged by its context as a whole rather than by a single phrase or paragraph...
...reader, incidentally, the proposed legislation is of minor significance. The Boston dweller who must have his "Oil" will simply no longer be obliged to travel to Cambridge to get it. The languishing Boston bookshops will again take on their line of pristine Republican prosperity. And, for the Book of the Month Club, Lewis, Deeping, Sinclair and Dreiser may now be enrolled once more on the national eligibility list...
...darkness of the park, on the bridge watching the black swirls of the grim river, still and stark on the slab in the white morgue--the caprice of nature lives and dies. Life in the well of loneliness. Radclyffe Hall beckons with a sympathetic smile, a book in her hand, for mankind to come to the aid of the lost. But contrary to her intentions, her humane gesture is greeted only with the crash of tea cups on polite floors, the sneers of the intellectuals, and the holy pronunciamentos of of the court of civil law. Despite the while...
Alone, forsaken, denied even the publicity of a common murderer, these helpless beings must stink along through the sewers of life under the ban of public disgust. If only curiosity, interest, some attention could be drawn to them. Perhaps through the book--The gavel of the magistrate raps fiercely on the desk. Even in the eyes of the law she is pushed aside. A smile of satisfaction spreads over the phlegmatic features of smug, heartless mankind. Cruel humanity plods on, its head high, leaving its poor sisters by the wayside, alone, out of the limelight. Was ever an abnormality dismissed...