Word: forbid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Timid? Cowardly? Vain? Dishonest? Untruthful? Easily bored? Was this, wondered London last week, any way to describe the healthy, cricket-playing backbone of the Empire, the British public school boy? Heaven forbid. But there, in banner headlines in the London Press, glowered those very words. What bounder had dared utter them...
Most important difference was that while Capt. von Gronau had to slip furtively westward from Iceland in 1930 without even confiding his destination to his wife or crew, for fear his government would forbid the venture, he now has government sponsorship for surveying the intercontinental route...
...refer to CORN LIQUOR. And now, as a crowning infamy, our politicians want to repeal the 18th amendment and then place an enormous and confiscatory tax on liquor, thus bringing about our complete enslavement. "The time for action is here when our government attempts to step in and forbid the manufacture and sale, unless we pay a tax, of the last and only joy-giving commodity that our country affords. "Let us not give up the ship as long as it will float. We must have some freedom left. Let us stand by and uphold and support the 'noble...
...grounds that all the defendants have been guilty since the Institute was proposed in 1927 and intend to carry on with the "conspiracy." the United States prayed the Court "to dissolve and forever discontinue the Institute," to forbid any further combination of the members . . . and to make the Institute pay all the trial's costs...
...Sirs I hereby order you to stop sending your publication to my home - 7 Webster Road, East Milton, Mass. . . . Any publisher who will gloat over the lan guage used in your issue of Feb. 1 (p. 4) is not deserving of the support of decent people, and I forbid your publication coming into my home. . . . TILTON S. BELL...