Word: leeched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conn., J. L. Hymens, Jr., L. I., N. Y., C. C. Jamison, Mar Vista, Cal., T. K. Jenkins, Ravenna, Ohio, G. G. Johnson, Jr., Washington, D. C. J. Kaplan, Boston, W. H. Kerr, Dorchester, M. S. Knowles, Kelsey City, Fla., G. J. Lasinsky, Long Branch, N. J., V. T. Leech, Moore, Pa., W. R. Lessig, Jr., Laureldale, Pa., D. Levin, East Boston, E. P. Little, Worcester, A. B. Lord, Allston, R. A. McInich, Manchester, N. H., P. L. MacKendrick, Dorchester, H. E. Magnuson, Arlington, J. Maier, Royersford, Pa., W. Malenhaum, Boston, E. L. Marshall, So. Portland, Me., J. A. Martin...
...Ernst marshalled an attack upon the character of the Society. He summoned famed writers and artists to testify that the Society "could not tell the difference between filth and literature." Writer Carl Van Doren called the Society "a conspicuous nuisance in the community." Heywood Broun, co-biographer with Margaret Leech (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) of Anthony Comstock, said that the plaintiff's reputation was "bad." Artist Rockwell Kent testified that by emphasizing the "filth" in books which it disapproves (notably Jurgen, Casanova's Homecoming and The Well of Loneliness) the Society has boosted sales of such books beyond normal...
...defense of a browbeaten sister, so moving her portrayal of an invalid who passionately wished but mortally feared to be a wife, that first night spectators yelled "Bravo!" as the final curtain fell.* The supporting cast is capable: Jo Mielziner has mounted the piece as picturesquely as a John Leech drawing. A small Cocker spaniel as Flush behaves admirably...
...that sensational figure, the Gibson Girl, a majestic creature with an imposing pompadour, large bust and perfect Grecian profile. Women 35 years ago who did not look like Gibson Girls attempted to do so, just as their mothers had imitated the swanlike ladies of Punch's Illustrator John Leech, as their daughters ape the rowdy sirens of Peter Arno...
...gentler satirist than Leech or Arno, Artist Gibson seldom made fun of the Gibson Girl herself. Occasionally in the drawings which made Life the most popular humorous weekly in the country and brought Artist Gibson enough money to buy the magazine from its former owners, the Gibson Girl would exhibit fear of mice, embarrassment at the shortness of her bathing skirt, or a tendency to buy extravagant dresses. But for the most part the Gibson Girl remained the goddess of a sentimental generation, admirable always. It was through the strange minor characters that surrounded her that Artist Gibson was "exceedingly...