Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in Manhattan, John S. Sumner, head of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, saw a picture in a window which aroused his righteous rage. The picture was the celebrated Andromache at the Siege of Troy, by Antoine Georges Marie Rochegross. Grotesque and terrible, it depicts Hector's wife at the moment when she is being dragged away from Troy for the pleasure of Neoptolemus, son of Achilles; her little son, Axtynax, is being yanked away from his mother by a brutal soldiery. The nude body of a nymph lies prostrate in the foreground. When...
...extremely probable that sadistically inclined perverts may be aroused to undesirable activities by such a display in a public place. . . ." When newsgatherers approached him, John Sumner enlarged upon his diatribe: "Sadism is a form of sexualism. This painting is very apt to arouse sadistic impulses. Also it is placed where children can see it. . . . If it were prosecutable, I think there should be prosecution and I feel that the law should be interpreted to cover such things...
...manager of the Imperial Hotel in which Mr. Levy's store is located reinforced Mr. Sumner's objections. Andromache was speedily removed from the window...
...RoomB Entry T. O. Frazier 24C Entry R. S. Balch 23STANDISHA Entry Sumner Putnam 25B Entry G. A. Donaldson 32C Entry J. B. Garrison 12D Entry J. B. Gregg 34E Entry H. P. Nichols 11HAMILTONA Entry P. H. Hoey 23B Entry F. C. Troll B-43C Entry J. S. Frame c-44D Entry R. H. MacKiunon 14MORRISA Entry R. O. Williams 41B Entry A. H. Donahey 14C Entry J. D. Kenney 11D Entry R. G. West 32E Entry T. F. Lynch 42F Entry N. W. Hinkle...
...that faith to the Presidency. I would like to suggest the nomination and like to suggest the nomination and election of one of the really great men of this country, one who in my judgment is best qualified to fill that exalted position, viz,. John W.Davis. H. P. COFER Sumner...