Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until the police had a chance to follow his suggestion of proscribing the subtly indecent book. The waters of obscenity have roared without, but Mr. Sterling has not been daunted. In Harvard Square, long stigmatized as the capital of Massachusetts pornographia, he found but one objectionable book, which was withdrawn with the bookseller's apology that it was on sale only because the man upstairs wrote it. Thus did purity leap the water...
...would say specifically about the situation existing in Chicago at the present time, when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. One of Professor Muzzey's books was included in the large number of volumes on American history formerly kept in the Chicago public libraries and which "Big Bill" ordered withdrawn from circulation and immediately destroyed by fire. Professor Muzzey could not refer directly to the existing situation because he has a suit for libel pending against Mayor Thompson and has been forbidden by his lawyers to refer to the case for publication...
Meanwhile General Augusto Sandino had withdrawn his forces in good order to El Chipote, 18 miles distant, in the Nicaraguan department of Neuva Segovia. To exterminate him the U. S. Navy took ships (see ARMY and NAVY...
Harlow Niles Higinbotham has withdrawn from the list of nominees for Permanent Secretary, and Alan Orrick Fordyce resigned his nomination to the Album Committee...
...every warm afternoon, to the dismay of the tea-party on the porch, there stood in the library a small statue of a gentleman whose naked freedom was a source of envy to the Vagabond. This gentleman was bent in a very athletic position, and in his right hand, withdrawn behind his back, was a circular object like a dinner-plate. Uncles and aunts had disclosed to the Vagabond the fact that the gentleman was preparing to throw the dinner-plate, but in hours of watching he never got it off, and great was the wonderment at his slowness...