Comstock
Speech parts
1. Comstock - Noun
2. Comstock - Proper noun
Meaning
United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915)
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Examples
Chapter 2, "The Comstock Office is Closing”.
Access to contraceptive information was prohibited on grounds of obscenity by the 1873 federal Comstock law and a host of state laws.
Although the nation's attitude toward the topic seemed to be liberalizing, Goldman was arrested on February 11, 1916, as she was about to give another public lecture. citation Goldman was charged with violating the Comstock Law.
Comstock speculates that Ravelston receives nearly two thousand pounds a year after tax—a very comfortable sum in those days—and Rees, in a volume of autobiography published in 1963 wrote: "..
Clemente questioned the motives of Norman Chirite, who served as general counsel to the Washington team from 2002 to 2005 and joined the Comstock board in 2004.
Comstock is 'obsessed' by what he sees as a pervasion of money (the 'Money God', as he calls it) behind social relationships, feeling sure that women would find him more attractive if he were better off.