Word: censor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While most Germans were staggered by this edict, the Official German Press Censor nonchalantly passed the following comment by Correspondent John Elliott, Chief of the New York Herald Tribune's Berlin Bureau: "The prestige of President von Hindenburg among the Republican portion of the population is completely ruined by today's developments. He no longer commands the confidence of the entire nation as he did a year ago. He was re-elected at that time by the Republican vote in the confident expectation that he would preserve the Constitution. In this belief the German Republicans have been sorely...
...Havana Leopoldo Fernandez Ros strolled to the corner with a friend to get a taxi. Senor Ros, once teacher of geography and history in the Havana High School, newspaper director and censor, was well known as organizer of President Machado's ruffianly strong-arm squad, the "Partida de la Porra" (Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio...
...cinema, the whole impression was one of sustained action with the starkly worded dialogue landing in the audience's lap with the jolt of a steam ram. Which recalls the fact that "The Front Page" was not allowed to show in Boston under the regime of Censor Casey. Probably even now the Playhouse is the only place where it could run uncut and unmolested. I have an idea that, in the opinion of the city fathers, the souls of such dilettantes as journey down to Charles Street are not worth the saving...
...good luck and God bless you (coughs gently, dies)? It just seems that no motion picture director can ever pass by a chance to introduce one of these three themes. Bobe and Ruby have a little scene that sort of embodies all three. A really good censor would have cut it out and left in a few more of Una Merkel's giggle wise-cracks. (Yes, I understand; if he were that good he wouldn't be a censor...
...first mentioned book is a compilation of new facts from Elizabethan Courts of Law and other sources which relate directly to such men as John Lyly, a master of comedy and wit; Lodowick Dryskett, the friend of Sponser; and Sir George Bue, Master of the Revels and Censor of Plays...