Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warner Bros, officials describe the British censors as "unpredictable," but they are entirely consistent. Respect-worthy things, such as ministers and officers, must be respected, and people must not be upset or told too much. Observers last week thought Lord Tyrrell as a censor would be tolerant of social and sexual themes, intolerant of political themes. Actually he will look at comparatively few pictures. The chief work of censorship will be carried on as usual by the Board's elderly secretary, J. Brooke Wilkinson...
...Dancing Master William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, John Bunyan, Robert Briffault, Dora Russell, Mme Blavatsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Humbert Wolfe, Francis Bacon, Solomon, Dr. Johnson, Tolstoy, Cardinal Faulhaber, Kathleen Norris, Prince von Bülow, Martin Luther, Arthur Davison Ficke, Erdman Harris, The Spirit of Lord Northcliffe, Swedenborg, Joseph Choate and countless others-all out of one of the most remarkable memories and most capacious files in existence...
...Keeley Institute at Dwight, Ill., predicted a race of "feminine barflies." Of his new "lady drunkards," 90% are married, 77% are housewives. Bound to convince the chronically apologetic members of the American Society of London that he does not really consider Manhattan a huge fleshpot, Baron Hewart, Lord Chief Justice of England, patted his round stomach and expanded: "Why, if Oliver Cromwell were alive today and seeking to find the company most congenial to him he would probably find it on the 40th floor of an apartment building in New York." Becoming a chorus-girl in London, 21-year...
Year ago, when the exhibition was first projected, sly Quo Taichi, Chinese Minister to London, pulled wires to have the Earl of Lytton made chairman of the committee. British museum authorities forgot that he was the same Lord Lytton who sponsored the 1932 League of Nations report condemning the Japanese rape of Manchuria (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932). Though a whole commission went to Japan seeking Chinese treasures for the London show, Japan at first churlishly refused to send a single pot. Well satisfied, the Chinese Government not only lent the Manchu treasures but sent a corps of light-fingered experts...
Divorced. John Hugo Russell, 3rd Baron Ampthill, 39; by Lady Ampthill, the former Christabel Hart; after 13 years of litigation; in London. Grounds: misconduct. To Lady Ampthill was awarded custody of their child, the Hon. Geoffrey Erskine Russell, whose paternity, denied by Lord Ampthill, was established by the House of Lords after Lady Ampthill had testified that her husband had once paid a somnambulant visit to her bedchamber...