Word: censor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...someone who had memorized the book would know the difference. Their changes in the story were judicious. Lieu tenant Frederic Henry meets Nurse Catherine Barkley outside a brothel when so befuddled that he mistakes her for one of its inmates. His friend Rinaldi (Adolphe Menjou), in the capacity of censor, returns unopened Nurse Barkley's letters to her lover when he is on the Italian front and when she is in Switzer land waiting to have a baby. Cinema's ethical code had in this case the effect of prompting the ingenuity of Scenarists Glazer & Garrett. The scene...
...gamblers." Billions of dollars of foreign securities "now practically worthless" were dumped on the U. S. market. The State Department "without sanction of law" usurped the function of passing on these loans and was therefore "implicated" in the disaster. When the Senate unanimously ordered it to desist as financial censor, Secretary Stimson brushed aside the order "with a contempt that entitled him to impeachment." Declared Senator Glass...
Boston, it becomes increasingly evident, likes to insure in its theatre censors a fresh and unprejudiced approach to the task of keeping pure the morals of playgoers in the Athens of America. The retiring stage censor of the Hub, John M. Casey, received his training for the post as trap drummer in a vaudeville orchestra, while his newly-appointed successor, twenty-eight-year old Stanton M. White, has approached the dramatic muse through a career as "art photographer" and county pay-master. Still further assurance of his fitness for the post of thespian Cato in Boston is found...
With dramatic purity assured by the high qualifications of Censor White and with literature in Boston still one of the principal concerns of Superintendent of Police Michael H. Crowley, the decline in prestige and potency of the Watch and Ward Society of New England need be no cause for alarm. Chaste virtue will still be the essential characteristic of service of the Muses along the banks of the Charles so long as Boston's morals are in the hands of those guardian cherubim, Stan White and Mike Crowley. --New York Herald-Tribune...
...necessary. . . ." Whatever Party Leader Mori thought was necessary remained a secret on the floor of the Japanese censor's office...