Word: censorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great financier had attempted to send a telegram to Paris. It was not passed by the Government censor. When it was brought to Prime Minister George G. Mironescu he seized his hat, hopped into his limousine, dashed for the Royal Palace...
...English poet, Edward Thomas, brings back memories of some of the more glaring examples of stupidity in Boston book censorship. It is true that the words "Banned in Boston" on the jacket of a novel will boost its sales tremendously, but in most cases the Boston book censor is not worthy of this reputation for the detection of horrid words and passages. As an example of this the first part of "World Without End" appeared some years ago under the title of "As It Was." This fragment of one of the finest and tenderest love stories in recent years...
Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America last week announced that, because of complaints of many censor boards, the famed udder of the cow in the Mickey Mouse cartoons was now banned. Cows in Mickey Mouse or other cartoon pictures in the future will have small or invisible udders quite unlike the gargantuan organ whose antics of late have shocked some and convulsed other of Mickey Mouse's patrons. In a recent picture the udder, besides flying violently to left and right or stretching far out behind when the cow was in motion, heaved with its panting when...
...service. Now 35, shrewd, reticent, he will be adopted by a wealthy man in Florida. Soon to be published is his book The White King. From Haiti he will bring with him cinema films of Voodoo cere monies, wild tribal dances, mystic sexual rites which his friends fear no censor will pass...
...week's end U. S. correspondents suddenly learned that Censor Seeger was technically correct in denying that Hitlerites had forced the film's closing. None less than old President Paul von Hindenburg, a man who had spent a half century in the German Army, had threatened to resign "if this libel on the German soldier" was not withdrawn...