Word: forbidden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President at the Hotel Mayflower, partly to save Franklin Roosevelt the embarrassment of crossing an A. F. of L. picket line.* However, since waiters, cooks and bartenders at the Mayflower and twelve other Capital hotels had struck for a closed shop, Actors' Equity Association would have forbidden professional entertainers to appear; food & service would have been substandard; Secret Service men would have strenuously objected to the President risking a picket line, even had he been willing...
...decades Sport's roving good-will ambassador, received a kick in its white flannel pants. Drawing up manifestoes for the coming season, the Italian Tennis Federation announced that: 1) Italian tennis players henceforth will be required to play international matches in uniform; 2) handshaking between opponents will be forbidden "to avoid the weed of intimacy which for too long has infested lawn tennis courts...
...Flower") LaGuardia last week marched indignant New York City florists. Their complaint: School principals, sympathizing with depression-pinched parents, had nipped in the bud an old U. S. custom: flowers at graduation. Cried Spokesman Anthony Gillis (to no avail): "Every year we look forward to graduation. Now flowers are forbidden. This goes to show there is something wrong somewhere...
...last week British Broadcasting Corp. staged a unique and peculiarly British program, a broadcast strictly for dogs. This was the sort of thing decorous Director-General Sir John Reith might have forbidden in his time, but strait-laced Sir John was replaced last October by heartier Frederick Wolff Ogilvie. "Calling All Dogs" was announced as an experiment to find out just what broadcasting means to dogs. So British radio owners were asked to have their dogs listen in, and to report their dogs' reactions to the broadcast...
...That Federal relief recipients and dispensers alike be forbidden to contribute any money whatsoever to political campaign funds, and relief executives be forbidden to coerce or solicit such funds, or have others do it for them...