WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 01 May 2026 20:52:34 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg tariff – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Nash, Ogden -- “Invocation,” New Yorker (Jan 1930) https://wist.info/nash-ogden/43312/ https://wist.info/nash-ogden/43312/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:28:28 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=43312 Senator Smoot is an institute
Not to be bribed with pelf;
He guards our homes from erotic tomes
By reading them all himself.


Ogden Nash (1902-1971) American poet
“Invocation,” New Yorker (Jan 1930)
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Nash's poem was about US Senator Reed Smoot (R-Utah) (1862-1941), who had announced an effort in his tariff bill to ban the importation of pornography, leading to headlines of "Smoot Smites Smut." The bill went on to become the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, passed in June 1930. ]]> https://wist.info/nash-ogden/43312/feed/ 0 43312