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...line or a word, an innuendo or a criticism . . . that can offend or displease," is the new editorial policy of this society weekly...
...kneed childhood, to brooding, weak-stomached youth; and from the path of his progress Anne cast aside all obstacles. "The world was made for well people to live in," she had cried when she heard of Tomlin's death. Now she said: "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh. . . ." A good many things made Rex to offend, and these were quietly deleted from the lives of Sam, her husband and from Flagg and Fern, her healthy twins. The picture of dancing satyrs, the little statue of Venus, the table wine, the Sunday rotogravures...
Such solicitude not to offend the U. S. characterized not merely policemen, but the highest authorities of State, who went so far as to bar from entrance to Cuba, last week, the distinguished Dr. Pierre Hundicourt, onetime Haitian Delegate to the Hague Peace Conference, who is now an avowed propagandist against "the Imperialist policy of the U. S. in Latin America...
Bless You, Sister will offend many people. It scoffs sharply at religion, contending bitterly that in some phases the word of God is simply salesman's talk. The special phase is female evangelism with the lady preacher magnificently displayed by Alice Brady. Such a play was virtually inevitable after Aimee Semple McPherson's gaudy publicity; another one is due next month with Pauline Lord as star. Bless You, Sister has many faults, but dullness is not one of them...
...fine sensitiveness of the leaders" in passing such an edict. Only the captious will recall the coincidence that the majority of these leaders are themselves of faintly Hebraic name and appearance. As formulated by Will Hays, the edict in question was, "that no pictures be issued that could offend the Jew or cause the thoughtless to point the finger of scorn...