Word: imprimatur
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this extraordinary series because Mr. Noyes, 45, is the dignified associate editor of the Washington Star, a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, his father is president of the impeccable Associated Press, Mrs. Simpson is his cousin by marriage, and over all the Noyes pieces appeared an explicit imprimatur from both the interested parties. U. S. editors were surprised by but had to admire the racy, tabloidal flavor which Publisher Noyes achieved in his articles, reaching a peak in the King's jocular query to Mr. Noyes asking if he had brought a shotgun to "cajole" him into marrying...
...story of the Earling exorcism, Begone Satan!, was written in German by a Rev. Carl Vogel, translated by a Benedictine named Rev. Celestine Kapsner, published at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn, with the official imprimatur of Bishop Joseph F. Busch of St. Cloud and the Nihil Obstat of Monsignor John P. Durham. Hence it was presumed not to err in faith or morals. The Denver Register, whose editor, Monsignor Matthew J. W. Smith, splashed it on the front page of his weekly, was deluged with letters...
...Affairs, Anthony Eden. It was formally delivered to the Italian Government and to the Ethiopian Government by the chiefs of the French and British diplomatic missions, together with urgent advice that it be accepted by Haile Selassie and Benito Mussolini. It was published as a White Paper with the imprimatur of King George. Was this treachery to voters who believed His Majesty's Government had pledged themselves to act otherwise...
...harsher Sanctions and to tie a knot in the banner of British idealism which has been unfurled at Geneva by handsome young Captain Anthony Eden. More specifically M. Laval was out to prevent the League from applying the crucial oil Sanction scheduled for last week. Released with the formal imprimatur of Britain and France, The Deal accomplished this initial purpose of abruptly halting for the first time the march toward stiffer Sanctions...
Long and prayerfully he pondered and last week, with President Roosevelt's imprimatur, at last promulgated his decision: There will, after all, be an open season for shooting wild ducks this autumn...