Word: censorable
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...doesn't make sense." Gustin ignored Post editorials across the page. Post editorials ignored Gustin-except once, when a political advertisement quoted from a Gustin column. Then the Post once more warned readers that Gustin spoke only for Gustin. But the paper made no attempt to edit or censor Gustin's columns. Acknowledged Gustin: "A remarkable demonstration of broadmindedness...
When Chairman Thomas asked, a little self-consciously, what Menjou thought of charges that the committee is trying to censor movies, Menjou reassured him: "I think that is infantile and juvenile; it couldn't be made by any man with the intelligence of a louse...
...this point Colonel Dymshitz began to sweat. But the worst was yet to come. Lasky pitied the writers of the Soviet Union: "We know how soul-crushing it is to work and write when behind us stands a political censor and behind him stands the police. Think of how it must shatter the nerves of a Russian writer to worry constantly whether the new party doctrine or revised state formula of 'social realism' or 'formalism' or 'objectivism' . . . has already become passe and the mark only of a 'decadent counter-revolutionary tool...
...Censor: "... A man with no sense of humor who is so narrow-minded he thinks in strips. He comes to his job equipped with a blue pencil and the right of way. [He] can find dirt in an infant's glance...
...trademark, or one of Lolly Parsons' little shark-toothed prose smiles, can make or break a director or an actor, cool or clinch a deal. Hedda's chit-chat can materially affect the outcome of schemes involving millions of dollars. She is a self-appointed judge and censor of all that goes on in Hollywood, and she carries out her assignment with a hey nonny-nonny...