Word: boarded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Board, either stupid or non-vigilant, had passed a U. S. film which showed a Hollywood Naples, murky and depraved. Mussolini's Italy, Mussolini's Naples had been grossly, falsely represented, insulted! Away with the Board...
...potent cinema tycoons. When an unsalubrious and perhaps unrecognizable Naples flickered before their eyes, they whistled and hissed in protest. One critic shouted "Only the fact that we are guests prevents this theatre from being inundated under a Niagara of violent indignation." The theatre therefore was saved but the Board of Censors was doomed a few hours hence...
...representatives in Italy, noting the fate of the Board of Censors, trembled for the future of their cinema, wished earnestly that it had not committed the grievous error of showing Italian "human landscapes immersed in endless fogs...
Swift and masterful was the style in which veteran Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré consolidated the position of his new Cabinet, last week, smacked down his program of action before Parliament, and swept an enemy or two from the political chess board...
...speaker was Dr. Franklin Martin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Gorgas Memorial Institute. He spoke of the late Col. William Crawford Gorgas, medical expert of the U. S. Army, whose prophylactic approach to the swamps, cisterns and gutters of the Canal Zone and Havana meant the annihilation of mosquitoes. Since in those places the buzzing, spiralling mosquito brought yellow fever, other ravaging tropical plagues, the extermination of the insect was a mighty mission. Therefore is Col. Gorgas' memory revered in lands which before his coming were "fastnesses of death...