Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city of Mantua, famed citadel of sturdy Etruscans, the local Fascist Prefect issued a well-pondered order last week: "For the remainder of the present summer all males in the Province of Mantua are forbidden to dance in public. This order has been promulgated for hygiene and moral reasons...
...What are male citizens of the province of Mantua, Italy, forbidden to do for moral and hygienic reasons...
...which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life in Italy. Decrees. I. Italian employers are empowered at once and until further notice to lengthen the working day of their employees by one hour, while paying them the same daily wage as heretofore. II. Italian newspapers are forbidden to print editions larger than six pages, from which must bs stricken all news of crime, sport, the arts, literature. News of other nations than Italy must be cut to a skeletonized resume. III. After Nov. 1, all gasoline imported into Italy must be mixed with a fixed proportion...
...chance of being made Calif of Islam; the rug started on its journey, accompanied by the soldiers and followed by a brass band which blared out, with wandering horns and cymbals, an Egyptian marching song. Now to the Wahhabis of Mecca music is an offense to Allah, strictly forbidden in holy places. A little crowd of "fanatics" charged the cortege; the soldiers fired; 25 Wahhabis, some of them women and children, fell dead. King Fuad had lost his chance for the Califate...
...adoption of this definition suggested the possibility that Germany might be "disarmed" of even her police, while France and Italy might keep 5,000,000 "trained reservists" ready to fight as soon as they could seize a gun-Germany, as everyone knows, being forbidden by existing treaties to train reservists...