Word: censor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trying to emphasize is that, since the war, the United States has developed through legislation the machinery which prevents free speech. Much of the danger to free speech has been removed by a repeal of the Espion-age Act, but the power of the postmaster general to censor what passes through the mails is still great and is used freely...
Georges Clemenceau: "The film version of my novel, Les Plus Forts, passed after long delay by the national censor, was condemned by the court at La Seyne-sur-Var as 'dangerous to public order and morality and tranquillity...
...London theatre, on the other hand, presents an easier problem to the wandering American. While Oh quel Nu! if transplanted to London might well be rechristened by the censor What a Fully Dressed Person!, the language at least presents fewer difficulties than French to the tourist...
...York Herald. On his own account he founded and was the first editor of The Star, The Sun, The Weekly Sun, M. A. P. and T. P.'s Weekly. He is considered to be one of the most prolific writers of modern times. He is also official film censor for Great Britain...
...Laughs." John Barrymore is at present in Morocco, perhaps preparing for Othello. Theatre tickets in Berlin now run to 39,000 marks or so. " Give us a couple of million, papa. We're taking the girls to a matinee!" The Hairy Ape has been passed by the British censor of plays for future production in England-all but one little word. The word is "bloody." You can write it, but you can't speak it-at least according to the censor. Another well-known novel will appear in a stage version when Margaret Anglin opens in San Francisco...