Word: pornographia
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...literary seepage, put his finger in the dike until the police had a chance to follow his suggestion of proscribing the subtly indecent book. The waters of obscenity have roared without, but Mr. Sterling has not been daunted. In Harvard Square, long stigmatized as the capital of Massachusetts pornographia, he found but one objectionable book, which was withdrawn with the bookseller's apology that it was on sale only because the man upstairs wrote it. Thus did purity leap the water...
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