Word: offending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offend families, not to advertise Esquire, but to illustrate an exceptional demonstration of Latin pride TIME reported the official furor in Cuba over Esquire's article belittling the amorous abilities of Central and South Americans...
...Britain last week from the current issue of TIME, prompting the New York World-Telegram to cartoon and say: "The story was not scandalous. The censorship must have proceeded from some officious and oversensitive minor official while His Majesty was gone, for there was nothing in the story to offend the King...
...itself in the guise of a Chinese movement to fight Japan, entered last week General Yu Han-mou, newly appointed by Generalissimo Chiang as "Pacification Commissioner." First pacified were the patriotic editors of Canton who were still shrieking for war against Japan. Censors carefully rejected everything which might possibly offend Japan, but did permit the Canton editors to issue their papers with reams and reams of blank columns. These sufficiently suggested to alert Chinese readers the scorching, trenchant and clarion calls to 450,000,000 Chinese to rise against 97,000,000 Japanese which would have appeared if only they...
...Republican demand for sound money, interpreted by Nominee Landon as "convertible into gold," was matched by a looking-both-ways plank designed not to offend commodity-dollar men, silverites or inflationists: "We approve the objective of a permanently sound currency so stabilized as to prevent the former wide fluctuations in value . . . a currency which will permit full utilization of the country's resources...
...Macena Barton's $1,000 Modern Olympia, a reclining, nude young woman with scarlet toenails and a small, black crucifix. The model, Cati Mount, had been one of the attractions at Chicago's Century of Progress, but the Executive Committee well knew that the picture would offend their pious, Roman Catholic boss, tall, white-haired Dennis Francis Kelly, who was trusting his subordinates to keep things in order while he vacationed in California. Another shocker was the angry Ration Box and Crucifix, in which Artist Adrian Troy expressed his opinion of the state relief administration with two scatological...