Word: censoring
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Maria Jeritza, buxom blonde Metropolitan Opera singer, instituted legal proceedings against Dr. Muller Guttenbrunn at Vienna because she thought that his book Riff Raff, which deals with a family continually embroiled in lawsuits, defamed her. When she first heard the book was being written she had the Viennese censor scrutinize it; when it was published she obtained legal authority for its confiscation. Her reason for believing the book was detrimental to her: the author is a brother-in-law of a maid whom she dismissed from her home in Vienna...
...Vanity of Vanities is now showing in Boston. Speaking as a man of God, Earl Carroll deplored the rigid censorship of his nigh Eve like girls as they appeared in his musical comedy at the Shubert. He created art unappreciated by the staid Bostonian morality as voiced by City Censor Casey. Besides bare legs Mr. Carroll pleaded for more profanity on the stage of today; he wanted a revival of Flesh and the Devil...
...jumped from Ireland to France (as so many hotheads did), won mention in despatches and the rank of Major in the King's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, was recalled to London by Lord Kitchener to advise the Government in ticklish court-martial cases, presently became Chief Censor...
Rolling, puffing his famous long cigar (he did not chew on it), Censor Smith graduated to Solicitor-General, then Attorney-General, becoming meanwhile Sir Frederick Smith, Bart. One evening, after the election of 1918, he was asked by Prime Minister David Lloyd George to make the most momentous decision of his life, given only until morning to decide: Would he or would he not accept the supreme judicial office of Lord High Chancellor, sit upon the sacred woolsack...
...week on all exchanges, declining in London to a figure representing an 11% discount. In Wall Street a recession of some five points in common stocks was charged off by fiscal writers to a whisper among the knowing that "there's revolution in Germany right now, but the censor's sitting on the lid." All the big Berlin banks parried long distance calls from U. S., British and French clients, repeated ad nauseam the belief of their officers that a coalition of Centre" Parties will continue for some time to rule Germany, shutting out the extremists on left...