Cumrid Poem by Douglas Scotney

Anthony Comstock: b. Connecticut 1844, d.1915. GB Shaw used the term in 1905 after Comstock had alerted the New York police to offensive matter in his play 'Mrs Warren's Profession'. It seems his ire was raised during his Civil War service. He was disgusted with the lewd language of soldiers.
'Through his various campaigns, he destroyed 15 tons of books,284,000 pounds of plates for printing 'objectionable' books, and nearly 4,000,000 pictures. Comstock boasted that he was responsible for 4,000 arrests[9] and claimed he drove fifteen persons to suicide in his "fight for the young".(Wikipedia) . Influenced the young J.Edgar Hoover.
'The protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Beautiful and Damned is named for Comstock by his own reformist grandfather. "Emulating the magnificent efforts of Anthony Comstock, after whom his grandson was named, he leveled a varied assortment of uppercuts and body-blows at liquor, literature, vice, art, patent medicines, and Sunday theatres." (Wikipedia)