Word: censor
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...Rome, for the purpose of dividing the population into classes and groups, enumerations were made every five years, followed by a ceremony of purification or lustration from which these five-year periods were named lustrums, and the word "census" was derived from Censor, the name of the officer in charge of these ceremonies...
Rumors. Strange rumors escaped last week from behind the Fascist censor's dark screen so carefully adjusted to shut out all but the glories of Fascismo. It was told by a pressman at Basel, Switzerland, that Mussolin's intestinal complaint now makes it necessary for him to subsist chiefly on milk and rice, and he seeks forgetfulness from sharp internal pains by playing on the violin when he cannot sleep. At Lugano, Switzerland, another journalist just returned from Italy declared that Roberto Farinacci, who recently resigned (TIME, April 12), as Secretary General of the Fascist Party, has definitely turned against...
...young society woman of 18, whose name was deleted by the Hungarian censor, challenged to a duel with sabres a young man of equal rank, who had befouled her name while in his cups. When they faced each other accompanied by seconds, in a wood near Budapest, he stripped to the waist, according to the Hungarian dueling code, and demanded that she do likewise. When she refused he laughed, departed. Vexed, she wept...
...Entered an English Presbyterian theological college, after announcing his conversion from Judaism to Christianity; 2) Became a Presbyterian clergyman; 3) Secretary to B. Seebohm Rowntree, the millionaire Quaker cocoa manufacturer; 4) Liberal M. P. cartooned by Punch for speaking broken English mixed with Hungarian in Parliament; 5) Wartime mail censor in the British Postoffice Department; 6) Employed by Herr Steinhauer of the German Secret Service while still receiving British pay; 7) Imprisoned at Brooklyn, N. Y., pending extradition to England, where he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for a forgery committed two years earlier. (The circumstances that...
When the exhibition opened at Manhattan, supercilious critics expressed a mild surprise that the Italian sculptor Wildt had managed to get so brutal and unflattering a likeness of Il Duce past the Fascist censor. They dismissed the bust as an unpleasant thing to look upon and turned away...