Word: blue-penciled
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...story could also stand some simple blue-pencil tightening. But it is still the best short story this reviewer has read in the Advocate in a long time...
...toughest critical yardsticks one can put alongside the modern short story is a two-word question: "so what?" A writer can blue-pencil his way to a clean precise style; if he can combine this with an ear for language and an eye for detail he can describe competently. But above all he must have something...
...Bureau's admiration for Partridge is reciprocated. He would "never go against the Weather Bureau," but once in a long while he does blue-pencil official forecasts that strike him as debatable...
...cafe owners into their paragraphs. Last week in Boston, newsmen noticed that the name of Saloonkeeper Toots Shor had been mentioned by five syndicated columnists on one day. They hastily formed the Society for the Prevention of the Mention of the Name of Toots Shor. First resolve: to blue-pencil the name for six months...
...Army itself has been, and is, quick to compliment the U.S. press on proficient guarding of military information to which the press was privy. But recently the Army has stretched the pretext of "security" to blue-pencil information critical of the Army. Item: the Army attempted to kill a statement that the invasion of New Georgia was "a bungled job," on the ground that it would give propaganda material to the enemy (who knew all about...