Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bright and early one morning la grippe took a firm hold on him, kept him in bed for several days. The malady was accompanied by a swelling of his right leg, which he was forbidden to move; but his general condition improved rapidly, mainly owing to his Herculean constitution...
...touches and uncovers, not an expanse of epidermis and small hairs and sweat glands, but the body of a goddess . . . and the aged clasp not a prayer-book but the key to eternal bliss." "Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions...
...indicted on six counts for illegal manufacture and possession of the forbidden, and for constituting a public nuisance. But it is notorious that six counts does not constitute a knockout. John Philip took his six counts, then he took a reelection, and then he took his trial...
...story tells the familiar bullring yarn-the matador who becomes famed and forgets his childhood sweetheart. The sweetheart saves his life in the final bullfight scene, wholly preposterously. All this Miss Dean whips into fresh and agile entertainment. There are not many actresses equipped for such a task. Forbidden Paradise. Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch, playing again on the same team that made Passion, are inevitably excellent. They chose a play called The Czarina in which Doris Keane starred not so long ago. The story is an amiable satire on the delights and drawbacks of Royalty. Rod La Rocque plays...
...long time ago, I read an account in some newspaper to the effect that Anton Lang had henceforth forever declined to play the part of Christ in the Passion Play and that he has forbidden his son to take the part. The reason given was "lost faith...