Word: bans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sanger attended the dinner of the Ford Hall Forum to Liberals last month with a gag over her mouth, evidence of the ban which the Boston police force has placed on her lectures...
Lady Eleanor Smith, dark daughter of Lord Birkenhead, made public complaints, last week, when she heard that Gypsies were to be excluded this year from Epsom Downs during the running of the Derby. Lady Eleanor knows the Romany language, likes to visit Gypsy caravans. The ban was imposed for sanitary reasons and to prevent a neighborhood nuisance...
Finally, Editor Kendall put Advertising & Selling back of the anti-testimonial movement with an editorial cheering for the Hollister suggestion that high grade publishers should ban the bought testimonial...
Alone, forsaken, denied even the publicity of a common murderer, these helpless beings must stink along through the sewers of life under the ban of public disgust. If only curiosity, interest, some attention could be drawn to them. Perhaps through the book--The gavel of the magistrate raps fiercely on the desk. Even in the eyes of the law she is pushed aside. A smile of satisfaction spreads over the phlegmatic features of smug, heartless mankind. Cruel humanity plods on, its head high, leaving its poor sisters by the wayside, alone, out of the limelight. Was ever an abnormality dismissed...
...could only remain certain that when Andre Tardieu does choose to speak, he will step briskly up the stair leading to the Chamber's Tribune, open his remarks with accustomed arrogance, and drive straight on to his conclusions with merciless, go-getting logic, always presenting his thesis as simply ban sens (common sense), and implying that his opponents must be visionary scatter-brains...