Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liquor and ship it-not to U. S. shores but as close thereto as the twelve-mile limit allowed. The idea was not, so the Baronet asserted, to act as a bootlegger. Only it so happened that a craft lying off shore laden with Scotch and other forbidden liquors would soon find buyers swarming towards it. Once his merchandise was sold-for cash-Sir Broderick would cease to be interested in its further history. Perhaps it entered the U. S. Perhaps not. He really could not say. But he sent out circulars inviting the public to subscribe to stock...
...light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked above the nine yellow tapers of wax or paraffin. (Candle tallow is generally forbidden to Jews because it might come from a ritually unclean beast...
...Publication of the amount of tax paid by individuals would be once more forbidden. (The Treasury advocated repeal of the publicity clause...
...Customs Conference proceeded with its sessions in the magnificent Winter Palace of the old Forbidden City. And the delegates, secretaries, assistants, representing the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Japan and China*- with those of Norway, Sweden and Denmark participating by special adherence-swelled the assembly to well over 500 persons, of whom more than half were Chinese, all but one Occidentally clad...
Common Chalice. The House of Bishops took up the use of tha common chalice in the administration of the Communion. Objections to it, on sanitary grounds, have been made in five dioceses, and in the diocese of West Virginia it has been forbidden by law and the Bishop threatened with arrest if it continued.' The bishops declined to drop the practice, although several bishops have permitted their clergymen to dip the bread in the chalice of wine and give it to communicants to avoid the cup's passing from...