Word: blank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aware of a collection of amusing little verses now being widely circulated under the title Mother Goose Censored? It seems to me that you might have made use of it in your article "Goose Dispute," in the Dec. 9 issue. The editor of the poems leaves a blank wherever the absence of an innocent word might imply the presence of a naughtier one. The result should be a good lesson to some of our scurrilousminded censors. Here is a mild example: Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; He stepped in a puddle...
...voted. If they must talk, let it be morning, noon and night, until the bitter end. With much grumbling they assented. Then Tardieu did a double-snapper with his whip-demanded that they sit thrice a day on Sunday too. Rebellion loomed, but Ringmaster Tardieu fired a figurative blank cartridge, demanded a vote of confidence. After less than a month in Power he has the Deputies so thoroughly cowed that they licked his hand...
...tricks as leaving out windows which, if represented, would convey the proper scale and give a realistic effect to Architect Ferriss's momentous masses, but would make these masses seem much less momentous and startlingly visionary. The drawings are accompanied by a lyrical text which breaks out into blank verse at times and ends with an epilog-The City Could Be Made in the Image of Man Who is Made in the Image...
...member of the Class of 1931 should obtain a blank for his friend and file it together with his own application, noting that the two are filed together...
...free. In 40 years of eccentric hocus-pocus he has never broken two rules: i) The groups he pencils must always be of assorted sexes, and always seminude; 2) He will pencil no one privately, though hundreds of prominent people, unwilling to endure the public ordeal, have sent him blank checks for a private consultation. He always refuses, returning the checks blank. Recently the Austrian Government, con- vinced after prolonged investigation that the Pencil Man is no cheat, rebated him two-thirds of certain taxes which he had paid in ignorance of a clause in the law permitting...