Word: covered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...envelope was dented along its whole length, the bow was hanging in shreds and there was danger in the fierce wind that it would rip still further. Men went aloft in sailor style, lowered a rope ladder over the bow, gather up the loose ends of the flapping cover and bunched them , together. They made untidy balls but prevented the fabric from ripping further. In the first burst of the gale, the ship traveled stern first for many miles, rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water while the crew worked in life belts. Even when the return...
...Lampoon, it was announced from the Police Superintendent's office in Boston yesterday, was suppressed for two violations of the law: first, the improper display of the United States flag on the front cover and, second, for the display of an obscene picture on the inside...
...cover of the Literary Digest Number of the Lampoon is similar to the picture of Washington crossing the Delaware. There is no desecration of the flag--actual or intended...
...ardent patriots who executed this grand stroke were particularly offended by Lampy's version of Washington crossing the Delaware as it appeared on the front cover. Yet so little did it impress them when they went about the work of confiscation that many inoffensive copies of the authentic Digest were carted to the police station. The other picture which the blue coats couldn't brook, they branded obscene. Of course it would be too much to expect honest and upright police commissioners to recognize the famous picture by Manet that has long hung in the Luxembourg. There may be some...
...reason for suppressing the magazine for the cover, if the flag appears in the original. The picture on the inside is no more indecent than the original painting, by Manet, which has doubtless been frequently reproduced without objection. It would be well worth while to get a counsel and fight the matter...