Word: censor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exceedingly sophisticated idyl of London society. The husband, to eliminate certain of his wife's domestically distasteful tendencies, invites a street walker to a formal dinner party. Certain specially flavored bits of sex discussion have been eliminated in the picture, taming the result down to the censor's level. It is seldom that what is known as a "society drama" makes a deep dent when caught by the camera. Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room. The Fast Set makes no exception. Adolph J. Menjou gives his usual complete...
...probably grasping in his mind for Benjamin Franklin's famous dictum: "We must all hang to- gether, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." That phrase may not have come quickly to his mind, with the result that he substituted a phrase acquired in his duties as a censor of public morals...
...heavy hand of the censor having fallen upon Brazil (see THE PRESS), news from that "revoluting" country was a tangled mass of conflicting rumors, in which the truth was all but inextricable...
Then the Brazilian censor swore he had found a leak. He arrested Charles M. Kinsolving, manager of the United Press in Brazil, charged him with "defiance." The American Chargé d'Affaires remonstrated, Kinsolving was freed...
...make love with the brazenness of a Valentino. His love-making is repressed. Mr. Dempsey merely looks at the "goil." He does not manhandle her. There are no shameless petting parties in this clean and wholesome film. The Dempsey "movies" are safe and sane and will get by any censor.' " Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Leland Stanford University, (retiring) President of the American Medical Association and brother of Curtis D. Wilbur (Secretary of the Navy): "To a reporter for The New York World I verified a report that I can put my right hand over my left shoulder...