Word: censorable
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Perhaps the most pleasing of all effects were contained in the large assortment of feminine beauty and the rather full program of dancing. Certain critics bewail the inactivities of that generally superfluous character, the censor. Far be it from us to criticise the critics, but one may ask if a bare log is not more artful and less crude than the suggestiveness of one covered by a fraction of soiled flesh-colored tights...
...this country the ideals of the old German Empire, to impose on us a system of regulation, interference and censorship in the place of our old scheme of individual liberty. They would regulate the life of the poor man for what they believe to be his good; they would censor his amusements and his reading of the State, but they do not realize that in doing this they are putting an end to that system of individual liberty and individual responsibility without which no democracy can live. Their own creed is stated by themselves as being the belief that "civic...
...sufficient to prove this point. Or, if more argument be needed, we can only suggest that money, of which the theatre managers have an abundance, is still a persuasive force. Voluntary censorship by the public is almost equally dangerous and certainly more paradoxical. To make the public its own censor is shown to be no remedy by the very existence of the so-called need for censors...
...Japan's claim to political dominance in China and the Far East has been scrapped. What this claim means was illustrated during the World War when Japan insisted on acting as the official censor for foreign communications to China. This contention of militaristic Japan, however, has now been overthrown by the Washington Conference, and nearly everything done by Japan in the Far East for a decade has been considered by the nine nations of the Pacific...
...responsible; or perhaps the Government has just recently learned to read French. At any rate, Gargantua must give way to "The DemiVirgin", as "Caliban" had to yield before "Simon Called Peter". Terence and Horace had better look to their morals, and Boccaccio keep clear of the censor, for a new Battle of Books is brewing. Certainly it is remarkable how the mind of the modern generation is kept pure and unsullied, and all indecencies removed far beyond it reach. When the act of sending a copy of Rabelais through the postoffice will finally be made illegal, we shall have reached...