Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following close upon the suppression of the Lampoon comes the news of the pestal suppression of the "Dial" parody number of the Advocate for alleged obscenity...
...frenzy of suppression has seized the regulators of morality. Not satisfied with exposing their humorloss deficiencies by calling a parody an intentional blasphemy, the postal authorities have taken another misstep into the morass of moral judgment in refusing the use of the mails to the Dial number of the Advocate. The definition of obscenity is one of the most perilous tasks which confront the executive. It is a judgment which must be made with modesty and diffidence rather than with the arrogance and assertiveness of the present suppression...
Last week, undergraduates of Harvard University took two liberties. The editors of The Harvard Advocate (monthly organ of literature and opinion) brought forward as their April number a parody of The Dial (monthly organ of "advanced" literature, appreciation and criticism published in Manhattan). This parody was inoffensive enough, being only an effort to attract attention by appearing more sophisticated than the sophisticates. The young Advocates "reviewed" the Bible, the Sanskirt Grammar, the Boston Social Register...
MEMOIRS OF THE NOTORIOUS STEPHEN BURROUGHS-Dial Press ($4.00). The serviceable custodian of New England's fame, Poet Robert Frost, has called attention to Stephen Burroughs, contemporary of Aaron Burr, whose transgressions, if not in the grand manner of a national betrayal, were much more profuse and persistent than those with which Burr is credited...
There was a persistent rumor about the University last night that the "Dial" number of the Advocate had also been suppressed because of the objectional nature of its contents. The Boston American made the statement that "Copies of the Harvard Advocate of the date of April 15 were removed from the newsstands of Cambridge by the police today" but, on thorough investigation, this was found to be untrue. Captain Hurley of the Police force explained that no action had been taken against the Advocate and that, to the best of his knowledge, no steps were being considered toward suppression...