Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Chamberlain's Office, official censors of the British stage, were asked to pass on "an American burlesque strip-tease artiste" last week, decorously replied that they have preliminary jurisdiction only over spoken lines, whereas it is the understanding of the Lord Chamberlain's Office that strip-teasers say nothing. Instead of reassuring the British producer who was about to give the Kingdom its first taste of striptease, this official attitude of pointed refusal to censor caused him to cancel the act and he declared: "I guess it's too hot for England...
...rusty little fleet of four cruisers and three destroyers across the Atlantic, straight through the operations centre of an over whelmingly superior U. S. fleet set to catch him, and safe into harbor at Santiago, Cuba without once sighting or being sighted by a U. S. warship. Navy censor ship hid that inglorious episode from the U, S. public, gagged war correspondents for another fortnight while the Navy made up its mind as to just where Cervera was. After Commodore Winfield Scott Schley had ventured close enough to sight a Spanish cruiser lying in plain view near the entrance...
Everything he wrote in future was to be submitted not to the regular censor, but directly to the Tsar. What Pushkin did not understand was that the Tsar thought him too potentially useful to be imprisoned, too dangerous not to be watched. But until he discovered that he was not really free, Pushkin was overjoyed, dove into his old gay life with more zest than ever. He even got permission to visit St. Petersburg, gambled away 17,000 rubles in two months...
...confessions, notably those of his close personal friends of many years, Radek and Romm, adding that he believed the unfortunate Radek will be shot and that the chances of Romm are not much better. Like all newsfolk actually working in Moscow and getting their dispatches past the Soviet censor, Mr. Duranty is in a delicate position, all the more delicate because every Soviet official knows that he was constantly in and out of the houses of the prisoners who last week confessed a plot to kill Stalin. But Why Do They Confess? The first quoting interview ever given...
...this dispatch calmly in a Madrid which continued to be battered, bombed and shelled last week, and then to get it past a suspicious Spanish censor was objective U. S. journalism at its best and bravest. The two biggest lies of the week were told respectively by the opposed Spanish leaders...