Starvation Corner
n.— «Authorities at Nice have cut out banquet scenes from movies sine cinema-goers rioted at seeing plates of caviar and salmon in the movie “Andy Hardy Goes to Town.” The Riviera, playground of millionaires, has been re-named “Starvation Corner.”» —“Banquet Films Banned” Kingston Daily Freeman (New York) May 10, 1945. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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