Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good entertainment based on an old style, "And the Angels Sing" left us satisfied. The photography was good and contained some very effective background blackout shots which brightened up the whole show; all this in contrast to the "Secrets of Scotland Yard," the added attraction, which kills off the only good actor, C. Aubrey Smith, in the first reel, thereby losing all chance of becoming anything more than the Grade C picture it was intended...
Everything about a hospital ship is intended to make the wounded man forget about mud and foxholes, the blackout and the whine of artillery shells. Most soldiers, when asked about their main impression of battle, would probably name the dirt and filth. That is one reason why every effort is made aboard the Solace and her sister ships to keep everything white...
...that of Theodore Dubois, 33, private in Canada's Home Defense Army. The club's president, zealous Captain Roy Longworth Byron, assistant to Canada's director of army recruiting, had written to Dubois suggesting that he volunteer for overseas service so that there would be no "blackout" on the club's honor roll. Dubois had stood on his rights (Canada gives its draftees a choice between overseas and home-defense service) and refused...
TIME reported last week on Brazil's rigid censorship, which the Christian Science Monitor's Brazil-wise Roland Hall Sharp had called "a blackout of the free press." TIME'S Brazilian readers did not find that story in their edition. Instead, they saw another example of the blackout in a half-column of blank white space, compliments of the censor...
...Vargas] has promised to restore representative government after the war. To many Brazilians, these promises do not outweigh what they see as an unnecessary blackout of democratic rights inside Brazil, in the name of a war to free the world from democracy's would-be destroyers...