Search Details

Word: censorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...voice was excited, muffled, guarded. Said he: "You won't hear from me for a couple of weeks or so, but don't worry. I've got a surprise for you, and it will be good. I can't talk about it because a censor is standing over my shoulder." Then he hung up quickly. Not a word since then has Managing Editor Robert Choate heard from Reporter Frazer himself. But from the British and Canadian Governments and the U. S. State Department, he has heard plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Correspondent in Trouble | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...couple of days after his phone call, Reporter Frazer, accompanied by another Canadian censor, went to visit a convoy ship shortly before its sailing time. The censor, preparing to descend to the pilot boat, looked for Reporter Frazer. He was missing. The ship was searched. Still no Frazer. The ship sailed. Safely at sea, Reporter Frazer appeared as a stowaway. He had figured that British naval authorities would laugh off his stunt as a smart newspaper scoop, play ball with him in order to cash in on the romantic publicity. Instead the Canadian Navy got sore at him, still sorer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Correspondent in Trouble | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...again. Rather, she has finally found a part where her flat, undramatic voice isn't out of place. Cast as an old-fashioned Communist who believes the executions should be stopped while there still are a few Russians left, Hedy is crossed up by her tutor who becomes state censor and executioner himself after arranging a fatal accident for his predecessor. The line of Russians that become Kremlin corpses after getting that job looks like a parade course in Sociology with Oscar Homolka standing out as Vasiliev, the Bolshevik bloodhound's bloodhound. Both Clark Gable and Hedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Comrade X" | 3/1/1941 | See Source »

...Censor the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...impractical idealist who runs a spy service-an accusation at least partly belied by his executive ability. His friends, vastly admiring, sometimes charge him with excessive sweet-temperedness. But at times Mellett has shown sufficient temper to scare the daylights out of those who envision him as a future Censor-in-Chief of the U. S. Press. However, it is not too likely that President Roosevelt would give him such a job. Mellett himself declares he wants no part of any "Information Ministry" and adds: "I simply don't believe in censorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censorship in the Offing | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Previous | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | 204 | Next