Word: bans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard imposes few restrictions on the liberty of the student. The requirements of attendance at classes, now existing for Freshmen only, are very liberal so long as the student remains in good standing; there is no compulsory chapel--no ban on automobiles; no restrictions on his comings and goings...
...romantic Venice, the year's largest crop of illegitimate Italians is always born in March, thanks to the annual festive "Hymen Harvest" duly celebrated last week. For this occasion Il Duce's ban against kissing in public, which is punished with a fine of 10 lira (80?) was suspended for the night. After filing in a long sacred procession through the Church of Il Redentore, some 10,000 Venetian youths and maidens of the rabble rowed out to the Lido in the year's greatest gondola fleet, slept on the beach under the moon, returned to Venice...
...talipes equino-varus type, affecting the right foot only." Ill at ease with men the poet turned to women and there "his success to some extent palliated the pain which deformity had inflicted on his pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected and his heart enfeebled, Columbus lingered on until . . .he died from cardiac failure...
Many an adult New Yorker remembers when he used to stand on tiptoe so as to look tall when buying tickets to the movies, lie to suspicious doormen who asked: "Are you over 16?" New York City fortnight ago lifted the ban which prohibited children under 16 from entering cinemansions unless accompanied by adults. Last week theatre-owners there were busy arranging machinery to comply with a new law whereby most peewees can hereafter attend cinemansions without subterfuge...
...editors' list of unmentionables the name of Stanford University. Since Stanford is a prime athletic newsmaker, Hearstlings struggled over their sports pages, concocted such lame evasions as ''the Indians," "men from the Farm," ''the University at Palo Alto.'" What purpose his ban served only Publisher Hearst knew. What prompted it, however, in the opinion of most observers, was that Stanford had invited to California, right under Mr. Hearst's disapproving nose, the man who for many a year has represented and championed everything Mr. Hearst likes least about U. S. education...