Word: bans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Controversy. The U. S. suggestion to ban gas as a war weapon aroused a storm, reminiscent of the recent Opium Conference (TIME, Dec. 1, 8, Feb. 2, Mar. 2). The friendly enemies of the U. S. were not slow to say: "At it again," thereby meaning that the U. S. was trying to "clean up" the whole arms trading situation instead of approaching the problem step by step. The pros and cons of gas in warfare were debated. The argument against gas can be put in one word: "Inhumane." The argument for gas, although not so well known, has been...
...Advocate has been notified by the Postmaster at Cambridge that the current issue has been declared unmailable. Whether this ban will be nation-wide or not is being determined by the Sollcitor of the Post Office Department at Washington. A copy of the suppressed magazine has been forwarded to him, and he will render his decision at the end of the week, it was announced...
During the vacation there has been a brisk demand for copies of the Literary Digest number in cities where no ban is in effect. The demand has been particularly strong in New Haven and New York, where copies have been at a premium. Cases were reported in New York of the sale of individual copies at as high as $12 apiece...
SMOKE RINGS AND ROUNDELAYS?Selected by Wilfred Partington?Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Some hold that Old King Cole's wide reputation as a ban vivant rests largely upon the gusto with which, in enumerating his postprandial wants, he demanded, first of all, his pipe. The bowl, the fiddlers three were afterthoughts. Such persons belong to the Old Jimmy-Pipe Club, a somewhat fatuous association fostered chiefly by columnists, mass advertisers and female novelists desirous of articulating Big He-Men; for, since Cole's day, tobacco has sunk to a low place in literature. The cigar usually proceeds from the stained teeth...
From haunting thoughts I cannot seem to ban...