Word: censorably
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...Carolist press, although mercilessly repressed by the Government censor, managed to insinuate the alleged significance of all these developments. It hinted that before Prince Carol set out to attend the funeral of Queen Alexandra (TIME, Jan. 11,) he "encountered Prince Babu Stirbey in the antechamber of Queen Marie's apartments and proceeded to box his ears...
Later scare-head-seeking journalists pointed out that the French political stage-censor must have O. K.'d Mlle. Parisys' act, and drew ugly and excited conclusions from this fact...
...passes that he is not called upon to act as engineer, architect, artist, interior and exterior decorator, landscape gardener, tree doctor, florist, gamekeeper, director of outdoor sports, and censor of beauty, morals and safety. "He is the man who provides 'love nests' for the birds and squirrels in Washington's numerous parks and playgrounds, shelter for the park policemen, benches for the weary as well as the lovelorn, golf links, tennis courts, and bathing beaches for the thousands of Government workers. He blazes bridle paths through the cool woods, supervises the care of the flowers and cherry...
...writes your book reviews, and I have made no attempt to find out. I do not object to his slang or the slang of any of the rest of the staff; I enjoy it, at times, with Mr. Tuck. But I feel that you should begin at once to censor the reviewers vulgarities, for your own good. Your circulation cannot depend on your catering to people who would read with relish rather than with revolt such a passage as the following, descriptive of a very brief courtship: "hardly more than an appraising glance and a rush upstairs...
Boston censorship has, of course, wreaked its will on this piece, so that it is altogether unrelated to the seductive photographs on the lobby. But it is greatly to be doubted if even the lure of wickedness would have saved so anaemic a production. Perhaps the municipal censor, or whatever he is called, is doing the public a service by demonstrating how hollow a revue which depends on its reputation for naughtiness is likely to become whenever it is made to be well-behaved