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Nonsenseorship

George Palmer Putnam (1887 - 1950)

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

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Keyword(s): poetry (1806), humor (642), essays (194), prohibition (15), censorship (5), 1920s (5)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 We Have With Us Today by G. P. Putnam Winnifred Assmann
00:10:15
Play 01 Evolution-Another of Those Outlines by George S. Chappell Stacey Malcolm
00:02:19
Play 02 Nonsenseorship by Heywood Broun Carl Thomas
00:16:06
Play 03 Literature and the Bastinado by Ben Hecht Donald Warren
00:23:44
Play 04 The Woman's Place by Ruth Hale Winnifred Assmann
00:18:08
Play 05 Owed to Volstead by Wallace Irwin Tomas Peter
00:09:50
Play 06 The Censorship of Thought by Robert Keable Donald Warren
00:22:30
Play 07 The Uninhibited Flapper by Helen Bullitt Lowry kathasears
00:22:35
Play 08 The Wowzer in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien Donald Warren
00:17:14
Play 09 Reformers: A Hymn of Hate by Dorothy Parker Winnifred Assmann
00:05:08
Play 10 Prohibition by Frank Swinnerton Donald Warren
00:19:31
Play 11 A Guess at Unwritten History by H. M. Tomlinson Donald Warren
00:25:54
Play 12 In Vino Demi-Tasse by Charles Hanson Towne Beeswaxcandle
00:17:28
Play 13 Bootleg by John V. A. Weaver Doreen Marcotte
00:08:06
Play 14 And the Playwright by Alexander Woollcott marisad6
00:26:05
Play 15 The Oracle That Always Says "No" by Clinton W. Gilbert Carl Thomas
00:22:38