Word: censored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, onetime Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling received a letter from a U. S. admirer. A British censor had not only opened the letter but on the envelope had scribbled: "Hello...
...luck with Cabinet Ministers whose Christian names are Leslie. Early this year War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha became such a bumptious headache that Mr. Chamberlain dismissed him. By last week Minister of Supply Leslie Burgin had caused so much trouble for the Government that London's censor-controlled newspapers suggested that the Prime Minister had better get rid of this Leslie...
Sitting in the darkened projection room of the Ontario Censor Board last week, Provincial Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn watched a new MARCH OF TIME film release, "Canada at War." Mitch had precipitated a Dominion general election by telling Canada and the world at large that Canada's war effort as organized by the Mackenzie King Government was a fizzle...
...Bori, now retired). For Pelléas, the Metropolitan had engaged a young (36), slim-legged, personable French tenor, Georges Cathelat, a friend of old (77) Maeterlinck who joined the Opera Comique in 1931. Today France's best Pelleas, Cathelat was released from his wartime job in the censor's office at the behest of U. S. Ambassador Bullitt...
...under Wagnerite Erich Leinsdorf, only occasionally set forth Debussy's score in its full glow. But Tenor Cathelat, a good actor and a good manager of a middling voice, captivated New York's Debussyites - who were out in full cry - and earned critical notices which any operatic censor would be glad to pass...