Word: bane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirit and Hitlerite militarism, the closing of the theatres can also be regarded as a perfectly logical means of preserving public peace. If the film produced a riot in which spectators were occasionally killed, every-time it was shown, the Government was entirely justified in placing it under a bane, despite the howling of the foreign press...