Nonsenseorship


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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 (4 hr 27 min)

Chapitres

We Have With Us Today by G. P. Putnam 10:15 Lu par Winnifred Assmann
Evolution-Another of Those Outlines by George S. Chappell 2:19 Lu par Stacey Malcolm
Nonsenseorship by Heywood Broun 16:06
Literature and the Bastinado by Ben Hecht 23:44 Lu par Donald Warren
The Woman's Place by Ruth Hale 18:08 Lu par Winnifred Assmann
Owed to Volstead by Wallace Irwin 9:50 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Censorship of Thought by Robert Keable 22:30 Lu par Donald Warren
The Uninhibited Flapper by Helen Bullitt Lowry 22:35 Lu par kathasears
The Wowzer in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien 17:13 Lu par Donald Warren
Reformers: A Hymn of Hate by Dorothy Parker 5:07 Lu par Winnifred Assmann
Prohibition by Frank Swinnerton 19:31 Lu par Donald Warren
A Guess at Unwritten History by H. M. Tomlinson 25:54 Lu par Donald Warren
In Vino Demi-Tasse by Charles Hanson Towne 17:28 Lu par Beeswaxcandle
Bootleg by John V. A. Weaver 8:06 Lu par Doreen Marcotte
And the Playwright by Alexander Woollcott 26:05 Lu par marisad6
The Oracle That Always Says "No" by Clinton W. Gilbert 22:38 Lu par Carl Thomas