Word: missteps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...