Nonsenseorship

by George Palmer Putnam

16 chapters4h 27mEnglish1922

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An entertaining collection of humorous essays and poems on the topic of “nonsenseorship” (censorship) in American life circa 1920 by sixteen different authors, including Wallace Irwin, Dorothy Parker, and Frank Swinnerton. Caution: The introduction and the poem “Bootleg” (Section 13) each contain an insulting and dehumanizing anti-black term. - Summary by Winnifred Assmann

1Evolution-Another of Those Outlines by George S. Chappell

139

2Nonsenseorship by Heywood Broun

966

3Literature and the Bastinado by Ben Hecht

1424

4The Woman's Place by Ruth Hale

1088

5Owed to Volstead by Wallace Irwin

590

6The Censorship of Thought by Robert Keable

1350

7The Uninhibited Flapper by Helen Bullitt Lowry

1355

8The Wowzer in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

1034

9Reformers: A Hymn of Hate by Dorothy Parker

308

10Prohibition by Frank Swinnerton

1171

11A Guess at Unwritten History by H. M. Tomlinson

1554

12In Vino Demi-Tasse by Charles Hanson Towne

1048

13Bootleg by John V. A. Weaver

486

14And the Playwright by Alexander Woollcott

1565

15The Oracle That Always Says "No" by Clinton W. Gilbert

1358

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