Word: bans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helping England in the belief that once you set foot on that dangerous path there is no turning back. Already we have progressed from planes and guns to destroyers. Next will be army planes, then the repeal of the embargo on loans to belligerents, then the lifting of the ban on volunteering for service with the English army. Each step breaks down the determination to "draw the line" and inexorably we shall move into total war. Inexorably? Let us hope not. Remember that in aiding England, essentially we are seeking to purchase security from a Nazi menace, and to purchase...
...Denied, through Steve Early, Argentine reports that he had told Dr. Leopoldo Melo, chairman of the Argentine delegation to the Pan-American conference in Havana, that the U. S. would lift the ban on Argentine meats after the election...
...means finished. Suddenly at 46 she took to writing plays. Her Le Marquis de Villemer was a smash hit. Her anticlerical novel, Mademoiselle La Quintinie, was a bestseller. Napoleon III read all her books, went to the first nights of all her plays his censor did not ban. In 1863 she dined regularly with the Goncourts, Maupassant, Zola, Taine, Renan, Gautier, Flaubert. Most of them admired her as people admire a prehistoric skeleton. But with Flaubert she struck up a warm friendship. His genius was not yet recognized: she urged him to work, though she confessed in private that...
...comic revels as cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance of cinema's No. 1 man-&-wife team results in split-second timing of some of the sauciest dialogue since the Hays office eased the ban on innuendo...
...Government he is an annoying fellow. A few weeks ago in the course of rehearsing a revue he introduced an acid skit on Mexican election scandals. Although his show had not yet opened, the Government promptly closed the Folies Bergere Theatre where Cantinflas holds forth. Protesting the ban as a violation of his civil liberties, Cantinflas spoke softly but sternly to a couple of officials, soon persuaded them that his followers would not permit the Government to gag him. The Folies Bergere reopened, with Cantinflas joyously needling the Government more sharply than ever. Last week, playing two shows daily, Cantinflas...