Word: censorable
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...news sources which, under such a law, would shut up like clams. Congressmen would be as suspect as anybody else. Reporters would presumably be informed of "secret" material only by notice in the Federal Register -something like notice of divorce suit by advertisement. There was reason to believe that Censor Byron Price liked the bill as little as anybody; and such a law-a death sentence to voluntary censorship-would leave his Office of Censorship with little...
...comes from noting where the ghost of its former salacious self, keeps bobbing up between the lines and leering. But wherever Sex has stuck its head across the line into Will Hays's never-never land of tight sweaters and kisses that last more than seventy seconds, the censor's scissors have snipped it off neatly...
Gloated the Nazi Hamburger Fremdenblatt: the New York Times has changed its front-page make-up "to warn readers that the boasted freedom of the press has gone even in the country of Roosevelt. . . . The censor's scissors have gone over the copy of even the sacrosanct New York Times." Nazi proof of this fact was discovery of the Times's 45-year-old motto: "All the News That's Fit to Print...
Later in a pleasant office in Cairo, St. John argued with a British censor. He had written that the evacuation of Greece was not "another Dunkirk," since at Dunkirk losses had only amounted to 10%, while the Greek campaign had cost a flat 50%. The censor crossed out everything after "Dunkirk...
...young Russian officer who has evidently led some especially brave and gallant maneuver against the enemy (just what and where the censor deletes) is brought to the camp hospital behind the lines. Because of the seriousness of his physical disorder Natasha takes charge of him herself, and he promptly reciprocates by falling in love with her. This can't be, for Natasha has given her heart to her fiance at the front and the hospitalized officer realizes this when Natasha volunteers for duty at the front upon word of the supposed death of her fiance in action. Here some...