Word: censorable
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...time was last January; the scene, Censor Byron Price's office. The nation's press had just received a very complete and baffling set of ground rules for wartime censorship, but despite this everyone was optimistic and cooperative. A far cry from that was the scene in Washington a fortnight ago, as long-suffering correspondents threatened at last to blow the lid over the ridiculous hush-hush handling of President Roosevelt's inspection tour...
Passionate Republican. Soon the horrors of Bonapartism seemed about to be vived by the Bourbons: the court censor forbade one of Hugo's plays. Hugo's Royalism was replaced by passionate Republicanism. He wrote an ode to the revolutionaries who ousted Charles X (1830). After King Louis-Philippe abdicated (1848), Hugo, now an Academician and ily's insanity. Bethel was judged insane, sent to a sanitarium for 20 years. At that point Sister Lerryn discovered that poor Bethel was not really a Treveryan after all-just "a child Mama had that had not been Papa...
...chief censor had insisted that he be known only as "Mr. Bullfinch...
...voice was unprofessional, big, with a flat, tolling quality that frequently gave professionals the creeps. No listener remembered its like-least of all originating from censor-shrouded Cairo, that graveyard for radio correspondents...
...will not try to do any censorship-that is the job of Censor Byron Price...