Word: postal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Personal Use. Soon after the pictures arrived, U.S. postal inspectors raided Identification and seized the club's membership lists. The Redmonds were arrested and charged with having tainted the mails, in violation of a federal anti-obscenity statute that carries a maximum rap of five years and $5,000 for the first offense. Found guilty, William was sentenced to nine months in prison, Dorothy...
Never meaning to spoil his idyl, François expands it when he meets and swiftly succumbs to a vivacious blonde postal clerk (Marie-France Boyer). The girl becomes his mistress, and he is happier than ever. One day, at yet another family picnic, his wife asks why. François forthrightly explains: "You, me, the kids, we're like an apple orchard inside a fence. Then I see another apple outside-." Though she is not at all sure that she likes those apples, the wife lets François make love to her once more while the children...
...cagey to say anything at all, and Miss Travers--who seems to have written her own interview--said rather too much rather too well to preserve the conventions of the occasion. The failure of The Island to extract from Auden anything more significant than his remarks on the American postal system led the interviewer into a few unskillful New Yorkerisms ("The Island wanted more coffee"..."As a matter of fact, the Island has been to Iceland"); (and the mountain to Muhammed?). Despite Miss Travers' sweet disarming mysticism, which occasionally peeps out from behind the Mary Poppins syndrome ("One doesn...
...marks of man's incursion on the wilderness are by now unmistakable -bullet-riddled trail signs, garbage-strewn campsites, carved-up tree trunks and paint-smeared rock faces. To Mrs. Margaret Robarge, wife of a Seattle postal clerk, such wanton destruction, which she first encountered on a pack trip into Washington's Cascade Range nine years ago, smacked of "wreckreation." Outraged, she decided to set up the Good Outdoor Manners Association...
...work in order to catch the salaciously disposed." As for Eros, Brennan implied that merely reading the magazine would not have led him to regard it as obscene. Instead, he noted that Ginzburg revealed his "obvious" motives by mailing it from Middlesex, NJ.-having failed to get postal privileges at Intercourse and Blue Ball...