Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlisted in the British Army in 1914, was demobilized in 1919 with the rank of captain. His first literary success came during the War. when he wrote a story about the first attack of the tanks as seen by a German artillery commander. It sounded so authentic that the censor would not pass it, believing it a captured document...
...deposit until three years after the bonded news purveyor has sent his last dispatch. All dispatches, whether cabled or mailed, must be signed by the bonded sender and filed in scrapbooks at the disposal of the Argentine Post Office. No dispatch will be passed or approved by an Argentine censor in advance, but the Post Office can levy fines against the deposited bond "if the news is false, or contrary to public morals or public order or tending to discredit Argentina...
...Comrade, this is a night of joy!" the censor admonished him. "Go home and put on more cheerful clothes...
...Indignant in Chicago was Police Lieut. Harry Costello of the hot-spot censor squad. "I have never seen Miss Warner dance," said he, "but horses are about all that have escaped having to wear pants in Chicago. We visit every theatre or night club where a nude show might be given...
...zany style was effective largely because of its Rabelaisian grossness last week were thinking again, after reading Kneel to the Rising Sun, his latest collection of short stories. As in all Caldwell books, the phallic content was high-though not so gamy as to attract the attention of the censor-but the best of these 17 stories were more cathartic than aphrodisiac. Some of them...