Word: serializer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...language, says Ogden: "The intensive, compressive, reverberative infixation; the sly, meaty, oneiric logorrhoea, polymathic, polyperverse; even the clangorous calembour, irresponsible and irrepressible, all conjure us to penetrate the night mind of man, that kaleidoscopic recamera of an hypothecated Unconscious, jolted by some logophilous Birth-trauma into chronic serial extension." Example from Joyce: ''The Ondt was a welltall fellow, raumybult and abelboobied, bynear saw altitudinous wee a schelling in kopfers. He was sair sair sullemn and chairmanlooking when he was not making spaces in his psyche, but, laus! when he wore making spaces on his ikey, he ware mouche...
...came of it. He founded Physical Culture City at Helmetta, N. J., as a health resort and a base for his publishing campaigns; but before things were properly under way he was arrested, charged with sending lewd & obscene matter through the mails. The offending mote was Wild Oats, a serial dime-novel of syphilis, appearing in Physical Culture. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, $2,000 fine. After he vainly appealed the case to the U. S. Supreme Court. Attorney General Wickersham remitted the prison sentence, but not the fine...