Word: censoring
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...dancing by almost everybody, but more particularly by the diminutive Harrington sisters, the Trado twins (male), the Lockfords (m. and f.), Bessie Hay, and Eleanor Willems. Miss Willems also lent her good looks to several of the skits, in one of which she was as seductive as the censor would allow...
...Coolidge has whittled his inaugural expenses from $100,000 to $449.87. Stands, fireworks court of honor, all the pomp and circumstance proper to the coronation of the Peepul's annointed, are waved aside. The only vestige of the grandeur that was Rome which has escaped the austerity of the censor is the badge, symbol of authority, and lineal descendant of the fasces which the lector bore in front of the Roman consul on occasions of state. In token of the triumph of Jacksonian democracy, every performer in the procession will wear one of these badges upon the left suspender...
...from shore satisfy in this way their insatiable New England longing for the ocean wave. In any case, President Coolidge is wrong; he must have a dark and subtle purpose in his mind. A Mussolini of fashion, another critic of lipstick and rolled stocking, a self-appointed censor of the beaches--who knows? That in the face of this sinister warning of a fell future purpose the Princeton men bravely declared that such trousers as theirs "were the thing among college men" is a theme for epic and song. May their heroic action not go unrecognized...
...exceedingly sophisticated idyl of London society. The husband, to eliminate certain of his wife's domestically distasteful tendencies, invites a street walker to a formal dinner party. Certain specially flavored bits of sex discussion have been eliminated in the picture, taming the result down to the censor's level. It is seldom that what is known as a "society drama" makes a deep dent when caught by the camera. Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room. The Fast Set makes no exception. Adolph J. Menjou gives his usual complete...
...probably grasping in his mind for Benjamin Franklin's famous dictum: "We must all hang to- gether, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." That phrase may not have come quickly to his mind, with the result that he substituted a phrase acquired in his duties as a censor of public morals...