Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The latest civilian student objection investigated by the Council committee is that of inter-House eating privileges, which have been discontinued this summer. The University has withheld this privilege from the students in order to encourage the individual's making friends in the House in which he live. "Actually," states...
Lord Tyrrell, 77-year-old president of the British Board of Film Censorship and a devout Catholic, forbade the showing of Stage Door Canteen unless a scene featuring Gracie Fields was cut out. His objection was not esthetic (he once remarked "I have no particular taste") but pious. The offending...
Rich, happy, dollarwise, Ed Noble knows a good deal about radio. Since 1941 he has owned and operated Manhattan station WMCA a 5,000-watter. If FCC approves his purchase of the Blue (it will probably have no objection), he will have to sell WMCA (no one can own two...
Later, in the oak-paneled lobby of the House, thick with smoke and members, Captain Cunningham-Reid blockaded Commander Locker-Lampson against the wall and shouted: "I want to know whether or not you are going to continue making these personal attacks on me. I have no objection to your...
Last fortnight Dean Inge replied to public protests against his objection to the bombing of German cultural monuments. Said he: "There is evidently a most evil temper among our civilians. . . . Philip Sober will [yet] be heartily ashamed of Philip Drunk."-ED.