Word: censor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writes your book reviews, and I have made no attempt to find out. I do not object to his slang or the slang of any of the rest of the staff; I enjoy it, at times, with Mr. Tuck. But I feel that you should begin at once to censor the reviewers vulgarities, for your own good. Your circulation cannot depend on your catering to people who would read with relish rather than with revolt such a passage as the following, descriptive of a very brief courtship: "hardly more than an appraising glance and a rush upstairs...
Boston censorship has, of course, wreaked its will on this piece, so that it is altogether unrelated to the seductive photographs on the lobby. But it is greatly to be doubted if even the lure of wickedness would have saved so anaemic a production. Perhaps the municipal censor, or whatever he is called, is doing the public a service by demonstrating how hollow a revue which depends on its reputation for naughtiness is likely to become whenever it is made to be well-behaved
...suppressed issue was called "The Parisian Number"; on its mottled cover a young woman, silhouetted in white-space, stepped into the profile of a bathtub over the caption "Cut Out by the Censor"; on its first page appeared a joke that was characteristic of the issue?a joke printed in French, and making a play of the words "habits" (clothes) and "explorer" (to go through). "Translation on page 31," said the editors. "Ha! this matter must be salacious," cried the vulgar reader: ". . . habits de mon mari. J'ai I'habitude de les explorer tous les soirs." Though ignorant of French...
...even have trouble in putting on Galsworthy. The other source of apathy, that of the official is caused by a most amiable man called the Lord Chamberlain. Officially he is a danger to the State." Mr. Dean went on to explain that the Lord Chamberlain was the official censor, and proved even less capable of judging plays than his prototype here in America...
...days preceding the election." The Giornale d'ltalia said that the resignation was a protest against the Fascist régime and showed the depths to which political methods in Italy had fallen. For thus airing their opinions the first editions of the day were suppressed by the censor...