Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frank W. Stearns, Boston merchant and unofficial godfather of Calvin Coolidge, resigned from the Roosevelt Club of Boston, but the club's membership had suddenly jumped from 350 to the limit of 1,000. . . . Free tickets for a debate between a Senator from Idaho and a college president sold (some of them) for as high as $20. . . . Symphony Hall in Boston had never before held a jamming, cheering, laughing, applauding 3,500. . . . Newspapers choked with type on the subject. . . . Prohibition was the cause...
...Censorship of some form on other is necessary. People should not feel that there is no limit to what they can do," said Mr. Ames, "Being agreed that there needs be censorship, the question is what method is the most satisfactory...
Therefore, many a British taxpayer approved, last week, when a commission chairmaned by potent barrister Baron Blanesburgh recommended, after investigation thousands of dole cases that the principle of the original 15-week limit be reapplied, after having been allowed to lapse during the recent acute unemployment crisis now gradually passing. Hereafter, it is recommended, dole payments should be made during, but not to exceed, 13 weeks per half year...
...pair of goat's legs, but they are rather superfluous in a country that carries 24,000,000 automobiles on its highways. ... The motto seems to be, in the editorial sanctums where all this muck is compounded for public consumption, If it makes good, lewd reading-go the limit. . . . THE GOAT MEN HAVE SCALED THE BARRIERS AND COMMAND THE CITADEL...
...Have the goat men stormed the citadel of the Ladies' Home Journal? Is it possible that a magazine founded (in 1883) to give "authoritative service to the Womanhood of America" can have as its policy, If it make's exciting advertising and builds the circulation-go the limit? Is it possible that Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who refuses to allow cigaret and patent medicine advertisements in his magazines, can sanction suggestive self-advertising by his ladies' journal? Can it be that an apostle of printed probity will now tempt the public with pawky promises...