Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history of the federal government's relations with the American Indians is not flattering to American pride. Robbery of oil lands and gross frauds by traders have not been seriously checked by the government. Worst of all, ancient tribal customs and religious rites have been forbidden, until at last public opinion has been tardily aroused to the injustices of the government. The latest move, sponsored by the American Red Cross, seeks to modernize the Indian without reforming him, to bring him civilization but to leave his tribal customs...
...customs inspectors: "Gentlemen, here are my keys if you care to go through my effects. I assure you I have no forbidden fruit...
...more probably, there would issue from University Hall a dire ukase. An individual clothes license, to be surrendered on demand to any "goody" or section man, might be issued to each undergraduate. Men on probation would be forbidden shirts and sock; none but Dean's List students could flaunt purple night-shirts: and P. B. K. scholars would maintain a sole monopoly on Oleaqua...
...refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, there is none greater in this house than I, neither hath my master kept back anything from me but tea, because tea is the luxury of the English, and Zagloul Pasha hath forbidden the Egyptians to fall into the evil ways of the idle-worshippers. How then can I do this great wickedness...
...Harry" was ousted, last November (Time, Nov. 17), from the Forbidden City by General Feng, Chinese Christian Soldier. He obtained asylum in the Japanese Legation at Peking and, later, under Japanese escort, went to the Japanese Consulate at Tientsin, apparently the initial trip on the longer voyage to Japan. Japan, however, could do no more for fear of offending the Chinese Government, and informed "Harry," last week, of that fact...