Word: decameron
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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...
...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...
...Florence, Italy, in a chamber of the Villa Palmieri, where Boccaccio is supposed to have spun out his ingenious Decameron, an old gentleman lay very sick abed. Seventy-five years were on his back. On his chest there was bronchial pneumonia. On his heart, heavier than years or sickness, there was black despair...
...Decameron Nights, after nearly a year's run in Drury Lane, is to be withdrawn in March. Its place will be taken by the many-scened Johannes Kreisler, which will be produced under the name of Angelo. It has already been produced in Berlin and New York...
Perhaps some critic of the next century investigating the dusty worn volumes of today will discover a master piece which has escaped unsuspected. "Tales of the Jazz Age" may turn out to be a second "Decameron" or "Conles Droliques"; "Java Head" another "Moby Dick...