Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Section 29, sonorously eloquent, affirms that no power of censorship is granted to interfere with the right of free speech. BUT "no person within the jurisdiction of the United States shall utter any obscene, indecent or profane language" by radio. This would technically bar most Manhattan plays and many an opera...
...Eventually] I was circumcised and made Mohammedan. ... I married the daughter of an old sherif, and became the recognized chief of my section of the tribe. She was a beautiful little creature of about 15, with great brown eyes and a Rosenknospe mouth. She was my first Arab wife. . . . Arab girls are always in love with the first white stranger they...
...jammed with part of Crusader Comstock's 61 carloads of assorted obscenity. He strove cheerfully to administer well the $15,000 per annum supplied him by John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Colgate (soap) family, Thomas Alva Edison and other earnest souls. He concentrated his efforts upon enforcing Section 1141 of New York's penal code, a famed paragraph lobbied through by the whiskered subject of the Suppression office's chief portrait. He suppressed Jurgen, famed allegory by James Branch Cabell. He did quite well until 1919 when he inadvertently attacked Harper & Bros. for publishing the dull biography...
President Neilson thinks that perhaps the most interesting section of these two volumes is the section containing the papers on the "Conduct of Life". They are certainly very interesting; and some of them are written with such simplicity and charm of language that they are sure to make a very strong appeal to the reader. Here are found also the three books which President Eliot himself thought might have a more permanent value than other writings--"The Happy Life"; "John Gilley"; the "Life of Charles Eliot". "These papers on the conduct of life are the answer to those who think...
...equipment for extended intramural sports. This in itself is a significant substantiation of the fact that up to a year ago at least Harvard was by no means free from the intercollegiate disease of stadrumitis which was making potentially able-bodied young men into bench warmers on the Cheering Section...