Word: censor
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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...