Last week General Lincoln C. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, called for the largest dictionary procurable at the Treasury Department, turned to words beginning with "O," read:
OBSCENE: Filthy, foul, disgusting, offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing or presenting to the mind or view something that delicacy, purity and decency forbid to be exposed; to be impure, indecent, unchaste, lewd.
To General Andrews' duties as U. S. Prohibition head had been added the job of U. S. literary censor. Last fortnight New York customs authorities had held up imported, unexpurgated editions of the...
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