Word: dishonestly
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...Censorship makes producers and directors dishonest. You cannot say that a man and a woman are having an affair. Somehow by hints and insinuations you have to get around this, and as a result you get something emasculated...
...Censorship is what ruins the plays which are taken from Broadway and turned into pictures," continued Mr. Gribble, "It makes motion picture production absolutely dishonest. There isn't a fact of life which can be shown on the screen. In certain shows you can't even mention the fact that a woman is going to have a baby. The reason why pictures are unintelligible even to minors is that they are not made to conform with any standard of morality but with a synthetic code made up by committees of bigoted people...
...could bow without condescension and kneel without servility. He was a gentleman: he was courageous: he was firm: and he was kind. His presence in a turbulent and cynical world lent some air of stability and truth to an institution that men had come to feel was fragile and dishonest. And he preserved for himself and for his own countrymen, as Mr. Punch had it, the integrity of their own souls...
...peculiarly underhanded trick, and is in line with the tactics used by men who, except for the leniency of the law, would be classed as common criminals; especially despicable was their use of Lindbergh, and it is by now apparent that that noble soul was either dishonest and hypocritical in his protestations or extremely stupid...
...passage. The slashing attack upon it by a dogged minority was wasted effort from the start. Pennsylvania's Reed for the Republican opposition excoriated the stabilization fund and the power given the Secretary of the Treasury to use it to "stabilize" the government bond market: "It is that dishonest thing, creating an artificial market. . . . When a banker does it we cry 'Jail him!' When the Administration does it we say it's praiseworthy." Delaware's Hastings, using no nicer words, denounced seizure of the Reserve Banks' gold as "legalized robbery." But the very head...