Word: lampoonable
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...reasons alleged for the suppression of the Lampoon--the desecration of the American flag, and the reproduction, with slight changes, of a famous painting hanging in the Luxembourg, are almost too puerile to merit credence."--Liberal Club...
...would be well worth while for the Lampoon to get a counsel and fight the matter out."--Professor Zechariah Chafee...
...cannot believe that the Lampoon will not contest this action of the police authorities in the courts. . . . Pretending to be patriotic and vigilant, the authorities have merely shown themselves to be ridiculous and meddlesome."--Professor Felix Frankfurter...
...conscience, freedom of speech and press, freedom from petty governmental aggression. On the eve of the celebration of that event the bureaucracies of Boston and Cambridge swoop down upon the newsstands and with a grand gesture of patriotic and ethical zeal, carry off every available copy of the Lampoon, as if it were a carrier of pestilence and destruction. Nothing could be more ludicrous, more utterly absurd if it were not so crass and insolent a demonstration of petty tyranny...
...station. The other picture which the blue coats couldn't brook, they branded obscene. Of course it would be too much to expect honest and upright police commissioners to recognize the famous picture by Manet that has long hung in the Luxembourg. There may be some criticism of the Lampoon's taste in running these particular pictures. But everybody except the police will recognize that this issue was a satire, and a very clever satire...