Word: warded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale of an obscene book to a member of the Watch and Ward Society brought heavy fines and prison terms to James A. DeLacey, manager of the Dunster House bookshop, and Joseph Sullivan, clerk in the shop, which is located on South street. DeLacey was fined $800 and sentenced to four months in the house of correction by Judge Stone of the Cambridge court. Sullivan was fined $200 and sentenced to two weeks in the house of correction...
Agents of the Watch and Ward Society bought a copy of the book from Sullivan, and charges against both him and DeLacey were entered. Both defendants appeared, and when neither could furnish bonds, after sentence, were taken to the detention room...
...Novel in Woodcuts- Lynd Ward-Cape & Smith...
Author-Artist Lynd Ward has woodcut an effective book. His pictures may not please artists, but they will hold the novel-reader, eager for a story. In parts the treatment is strongly reminiscent of German cinema-e.g.. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. But the book is a tour de force; novelists will have little competition from such "novels...
...list of patronesses for the dance, just announced, included Mrs. Matthew Luce, Mrs. A. N. Holcombe, Mrs. W. B. Wood, Mrs. E. T. Putnam, Mrs. David Cheever, Mrs. A. L. Devens, Mrs. J. T. Murray, Mrs. J. D. M. Ford, Mrs. R. DeC. Ward, Mrs. G. L. Batchelder, Dean Bernice V. Brown, and Mrs. Margaret Barrett...