Word: censorable
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...Indignant in Chicago was Police Lieut. Harry Costello of the hot-spot censor squad. "I have never seen Miss Warner dance," said he, "but horses are about all that have escaped having to wear pants in Chicago. We visit every theatre or night club where a nude show might be given...
...zany style was effective largely because of its Rabelaisian grossness last week were thinking again, after reading Kneel to the Rising Sun, his latest collection of short stories. As in all Caldwell books, the phallic content was high-though not so gamy as to attract the attention of the censor-but the best of these 17 stories were more cathartic than aphrodisiac. Some of them...
...morning, its pages charged with pictures and stories of angelic cleanness, "Lampy" brought out a new issue. But we, its unhappy readers, miss the zest and blood-tingling thrill of phrases saturated with double meanings. Gone are the days when men were men and jokes were jokes. The inexorable censor has done his work. Within a few short weeks he has changed vivacious "Lampy" into reading matter fit for the suckling babe, has transformed the flirtatious courtesan into the demure virgin. Thus we lament the decease of a spirit which filled our hearts with glee and our minds with filth...
...John A. Kennedy, used to call often on Mr. Garner. Now their visits are few & far between. Nominee Roosevelt made a different mistake. He feared that his running mate might make the ticket look ridiculous. So the Brain Trust sent a bright journalist, Charles Hand, to act as censor of the Garner utterances. To a man who had been a practicing politician when Roosevelt was in short pants, this was the ultimate insult...
...against that. For his recipe for poetry is apparently a dash if wit, a sprinkle of imagery, and a pinch of smut. The last condiment is easy to find despite his commendable ruse in transliterating into Greek certain English monosyllables which always arouse Mr. Dirty Mind, the true-born censor. There is a blank page, whose missing text appears only in the holograph edition, and the penny arcade reader may well purchase that--at $99 a copy--if he wants Cummings straight. No. 16, as it is, has quite a bounce to it, and would hardly be given the imprimatur...