Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Congress adjourned, Senator William H. King of Utah, Democrat and Mormon, left Washington for a self-appointed investigating tour of Porto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Haiti. Last week in Porto Rico he received notice that he was not wanted in the Negro Republic of Haiti. Simultaneously, the Haitian Minister in Washington received a cablegram from the Haitian government. It said...
...Haiti of the Colombian line neared St. Thomas harbor in the Virgin Islands, a dove, flying aimlessly far from land, alit on the deck. Wireless Operator William D. Collins occupied his idle hours cooing, chirruping, making enticing gestures with his fingers. The dove's hunger overcame its distrust when the man offered crumbs in his palm. The man, thinking the small creature loved him, felt benevolent, like...
...topic of the recent censorship campaign, Miss Brady was convinced that the move was made for the sake of Publicity on the one hand, and on the other, to prevent a certain extremely salacious play from reaching New York. "The Virgin Man's one of the plays involved in the censorship, was playing to empty houses, for the very good reason that it was a very poor play. Now the enormous publicity given it, has not only kept it alive but has sent it capacity audiences...
...hungry man turned loose in a cafateria with his virgin mealcheck in his hand is frequently at a loss to decide where to turn for his sustenance, which part of the goodly array spread before him to tackle first. So it is with the Vagabond this Wednesday morning. Wandering at will in the vast intellectual cafeteria that is Harvard, he finds that the day's fare is so plentiful and so temptingly varied, that he is quite appalled at the prospect of choosing the lectures to serve as his daily morsels of mental delecation. In such sore doubt himself...
Gibbs then made the point that "The Virgin Man", the recently censored New York play, was about to be taken off because it was a poor play and was returning no profit. Then the police stepped in, and the rush became general...