Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Returning to the nub, it became evident last week that legislation must be enacted to supplant the present grandiloquently named but impotent British Board of Film Censors, chairmanned by famed "Tay Pay" O'Connor, now vacationing in the U. S. (TIME, March 5). The Board possesses no legal jurisdiction, but by commercial agreement its recommendations are obeyed in the numerous theatres of the British Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association...
Long since, the Board banned Dawn as "inexpedient," thus drawing from the London Times a pompous twitter: "What is the nature of the inexpedience? . . . The adjective 'political' instantly suggests itself, and a political censorship, in whatever discreet feathers it be dressed is, in England at least, a remarkably ugly bird...
...Bird had been refused a pilot's license by the San Diego Air Control Board. His home-made monoplane had also been pronounced unfit to fly. Yet last week he took it into the air with four passengers, nose-dived 300 feet to earth while trying to avoid a midair crash with a big Maddux plane. Mr. Bird and his four passengers were killed instantly. The home-made monoplane was a twisted wreck in a field near Oldtown, Calif...
...Congregationalist conference in Chicago, Dr. Malcolm Dana, Director of Town & Country department of the Congregational Church Extension Board for the past ten years, made a lugubrious confession. He said: "As a result of four years study of rural conditions, we find that only one-fifth of country people go to church. There are 101,000 town and country churches in America. Two-fifths of them are standing still or losing ground. There are 38,000 rural churches, or 42% of all, which have no pastors...
Thus did Horace Dutton Taft, brother of U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Howard Taft, evolve into an eminent educator. Last year he took Taft School out of his own pocketbook, gave it to a self-perpetuating board of trustees. He continued to serve as headmaster. His boys have a golf course and a fine football field, but they are more likely to excel in Latin and things musical. They lack adequate housing. So last week began a campaign to raise $2,000,000, more than half of which will be used for new buildings. Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan...