United States reformer who led moral crusades against art and literature that he considered obscene (1844-1915)

Usage examples of comstock.

The patriarch, Thomas More Anglesey, Duke of Gunfleet, had been a contemporary, and a mortal rival, of John Comstock, who was the Earl of Epsom and the first great noble backer of the Royal Society.

Comstock had been the C, and Anglesey the first A, in the CABAL, the group of five who had run the Restoration government of Charles II.

As it was, the laboratory that those three lonely hereticks had set up on the Masham estate seemed a masque of what Wilkins and Hooke had done as guests of John Comstock.

Same thing that happened to Derek Comstock after he sent the message Billie needed him to send.

Willis Comstock Krebbs, Caucasian male, age sixty-three, born in Tucson, Arizona.

He was a principal contributor to the Comstock gubernatorial campaign.

Although none of the criminal allegations were proven by the investigating committee, the Michigan Democratic Party still did not trust Leebove and castigated Comstock for appointing him.

Under it was another busy city, down in the bowels of the earth, where a great population of men thronged in and out among an intricate maze of tunnels and drifts, flitting hither and thither under a winking sparkle of lights, and over their heads towered a vast web of interlocking timbers that held the walls of the gutted Comstock apart.

Personally, I am never in Ossining, although once I make Auburn, and once Comstock, but the scenery in these localities is nothing to speak of.

They were getting ready to transfer him to the work camp at Comstock and would only let me see him for a few minutes He was doing alright, I guess, but he still has more than three years to serve.

The system of espionage established by this man Comstock puts to shame the infamous Third Division of the Russian secret police.

Simply because Comstock is but the loud expression of the Puritanism bred in the Anglo-Saxon blood, and from whose thraldom even liberals have not succeeded in fully emancipating themselves.

Christian Temperance Unions, Purity Leagues, American Sabbath Unions, and the Prohibition Party, with Anthony Comstock as their patron saint, are the grave diggers of American art and culture.

Anthony Comstock, or some other equally ignorant policeman, has been given power to desecrate genius, to soil and mutilate the sublimest creation of nature--the human form.

Comstock had spent twenty years using his congressionally mandated (and constitutionally quite ques­tionable) powers to persecute zealously anyone who dealt in contraceptive devices, pregnancy abortions, ribald literature and photographs, and anything else that met his rather expan­sive definition of “obscene.