Word: summeri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author D. H. Lawrence, whose unexpurgated Lady Chatterley's Lover has been barred from the mails since its U.S. publication last May, was posthumously vindicated by the U.S. Second District Court of Appeals. Slapping down Postmaster General Arthur E. Summeri'ield, the court commented that his action, in ruling the novel unmaiiable because of its obscenity, was "extreme" censorship. The court's decision was unanimous, but one of the three sitting judges, Leonard P. Moore, concurred "reluctantly" and swiped peevishly, not only at Her Ladyship and her gamy gamekeeper, but also at the U.S. reading public that...
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