Word: upset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month the Supreme Electoral Tribunal upset the coalition cart by ruling that electors must vote for the nominee of their party. Thus the rebellious Liberal wing could not join the Gomez coalition and foxy old Menocal would probably win. With the coalition threatening to withdraw from the election if the ruling stood, and the Menocalistas threatening to withdraw if the ruling was disregarded, President Mendieta again postponed the election, called in Dr. Dodds...
...clue to British censorship is that it tries to keep people from thinking about what might upset them. About things normally censorable it is far more tolerant than Will H. Hays. The British Board of Film Censors objects to scenes showing mental disorders, the preliminaries to childbirth, drunken women, cruelty to animals, miscegenation, police brutality, lovable criminals, the Royal Family and the U. S. expression "nerts." Furthermore the Board always tries to do what it thinks the British Foreign and Home Offices would want it to do. Thus, it prevents British citizens from seeing anything that might make them dislike...
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...
...fault, I guess. It was an accident." Next morning Mrs. Livermore sobered up enough to blame it all on a letter she had received from her onetime husband. "He said I kept his letters from our sons," she babbled miserably. "He said a lot of things. It upset me, unstrung me.'' On the floor of the St. Louis Merchants Exchange where he is currently reported making his third fortune after his second bankruptcy, Jesse Livermore Sr. was notified of the shooting. Silently he and his third wife took plane for California. On the second day doctors operated...
Playfair furnished an example of this last year, when, after having trimmed Woodland, Minor, and Canning of Yale in the H-Y-P meet, he trailed them to the tape along the rough Van Cortlandt course. Workouts in Brookline had been expected to obviate a similar upset this year, and until the news of Playfair's illness, Jaakko's team looked good for a victory...