Word: comstockism
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...requested for two new dormitories, the $1,200,000 needed for Comstock has already been raised...
...Comstock Hall, Radcliffe's newest dormitory, is a month behind its building schedule, President Wilbur K. Jordan of Radcliffe has disclosed. He indicated that one month of good weather will be necessary to get the dorm under roof before winter sets...
...residence wing of the Radcliffe Graduate Center, begun a month later than Comstock, is proceeding according to schedule...
Even with the two new houses, Radcliffe is unable to give a room to every student who requests college housing. It is expected that this situation will be corrected with the opening of Comstock Hall, now under construction behind Moors Hall...
...Lewd & Indecent." Comstock was strolling down a street in midtown Manhattan one May day in 1913 when the naked blonde vision, displayed in the window of an art gallery, caught his horrified gaze. Storming in, Comstock flashed his police badge and roared: "There's too little morn and too much maid. Take her out!" The gallery refused. Next day the story was splashed across the front pages of Manhattan's dailies, and the picture had become famous. Enraged cries of "lewd and indecent" were met with the New York Times's indignant defense that the picture...