Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three or four mayors or boards of aldermen have already forbidden the showing of Chaplin films in their municipalities because of the charges of immorality brought against him by his wife in her suit for divorce. If his wife proves her point we may not unreasonably expect such a procedure to be nation-wide...
...rapidly vanishing. Surely even Poynter himself must know that if the stranger in certain sections of the South relies solely on color he is decidedly unable in many instances to distinguish a white man from a Negro, notwithstanding the well-known fact that intermarriage between the races is strictly forbidden by Southern laws! May we ask Poynter who is to blame? Certainly not the despised...
...William Montgomery McGovern, a distinguished English explorer, a member of the Royal Geographical and Royal Asiatic Societies, will deliver an illustrated lecture in the Living Room of the Harvard Union at 7.30 o'clock tonight, telling of his adventures on his trip to Lhasa, the forbidden city of Tibet...
...most versatile of living English scientists, Dr. McGovern is not only famous for important Amazonian explorations, but is still more renowned as the first white man to penetrate into Lhasa, the "Forbidden City" of Tibet. As a lecturer he stood in the front ranks in the Oxford Union, and has addressed the leading British societies...
...Hidayah all quadrupeds that seize their prey with their teeth, all birds which seize it with their talons are unlawful because the Prophet prohibited mankind from eating them. Hyenas, foxes, elephants, weasels, pelicans, kites, carrion crows, ravens, crocodiles, otters, asses, mules, wasps and in general all insects are forbidden."-Dictionary of Islam...