Word: censorable
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...Reynaud, a thrifty man, had a 21-year-old map in his office. Instead of buying a new one, he kept up with history by marking Germany's acquisitions in red chalk, Russia's in yellow. In the photograph Germany and Russia looked like one. The censor did not like it, ordered the map retouched. (In the first copies of the photograph of the Welles-Reynaud conversations which reached the U. S., the map was blanked out entirely.) L'Illustration, more concerned with art than geography, sketched in Europe's frontiers with considerable inaccuracy. The borders...
...Germany, onetime Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling received a letter from a U. S. admirer. A British censor had not only opened the letter but on the envelope had scribbled: "Hello...
Sitting in the darkened projection room of the Ontario Censor Board last week, Provincial Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn watched a new MARCH OF TIME film release, "Canada at War." Mitch had precipitated a Dominion general election by telling Canada and the world at large that Canada's war effort as organized by the Mackenzie King Government was a fizzle...
...Bori, now retired). For Pelléas, the Metropolitan had engaged a young (36), slim-legged, personable French tenor, Georges Cathelat, a friend of old (77) Maeterlinck who joined the Opera Comique in 1931. Today France's best Pelleas, Cathelat was released from his wartime job in the censor's office at the behest of U. S. Ambassador Bullitt...
...under Wagnerite Erich Leinsdorf, only occasionally set forth Debussy's score in its full glow. But Tenor Cathelat, a good actor and a good manager of a middling voice, captivated New York's Debussyites - who were out in full cry - and earned critical notices which any operatic censor would be glad to pass...