Word: censor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Able and avid to censor books and plays within its city limits, Boston tries also to censor magazines. In 1926 it impeded sales of the American Mercury containing "Hatrack." Last spring it pounced on Scribner's for the serial instalments of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms." Last week magazine readers watched to see what Boston would do about the January number of Plain Talk, which contained a sizzling article about Boston itself...
Fortunately enough Mr. Casey, Boston's estimable censor, was either absent or could see nothing wrong in cheering so long as there is no pecunlary advantage in it. Consequently the production was allowed to continue on to its ultimately happy conclusion much to the satisfaction of all present
...want my personal opinion as to what forms of censorship are desirable," he said, "my reply is--None! As a matter of fact a censor is usually not shocked at the same thing for long...
Right Hon. Thomas Power ("Tay Pay") O'Connor is 81. He has seen, written, talked and done much. "Father of the House of Commons," he has been a Member of Parliament uninterruptedly since 1880, cinema censor of Great Britain, reporter, editor, publisher, author. Last week he announced the end of one of his many ventures. Said he, writing in T. P.'s & Cassell's Weekly. "This is the last number which will appear. I have struggled for a long time against ill-health and fatigue, but I find my health unequal to the demands...
...decency debate was precipitated by Senator Bronson Cutting, Harvard-educated New Mexico Republican. He maintained that Customs officials are not qualified to pass upon literary imports. A recent example of the Customs censor ship was the barring of Voltaire's Candide, for centuries a classic, yet officially considered unfit for U. S. consumption. Other famed books barred from U. S. ports include unexpurgated editions of the Arabian Nights, various of the works of Aristophanes, Balzac, Rousseau, Havelock Ellis. Ridiculous, said Senator Cutting, was a situation in which "two-by-four clerks" could decide what the U. S. public might...