Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the sun shone again and tempers began to improve. Painters, though forbidden by their unions to exert themselves, plied their brushes vigorously. Plasterers, bricklayer and frame-builders broke into a gallop of activity. By week's end 17 pavilions were finished and functioning, though it was expected that the whole thing would not be ready for a month...
...Chesapeake Bay from Washington last week churned two boatloads of aviation experts, manufacturers and operators to the brick and grass coziness of Old Point Comfort, Va. to attend the twelfth annual Aircraft Engineering Research Conference of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Carefully watched by soldiers and with cameras forbidden, they were driven to Langley Field to be chaperoned physically by NACA's Secretary John Victory and mentally by NACA's Research Director Dr. George William Lewis through the world's greatest collection of wind tunnels, to see what the finest U. S. aviation research group...
...passed and flown to vacationing President Roosevelt for signing only five hours before expiration of the current temporary statute, was a new. permanent Neutrality Bill. Continued are present mandatory bans on furnishing of loans, credits, arms, munitions and implements of war to belligerents. In addition, U. S. citizens are forbidden to travel on belligerent vessels except as provided by the President, and U. S. merchantmen may not be armed. Contributions of food, clothing and medical aid, such as U. S. liberals are sending to Spam's embattled Loyalists, must have the President's approval...
...orange, the vitaminous banana and the MacIntosh apple all have high nutritive value which would be very good for general health, particularly as the hot weather has arrived. Viewed from this angle it would seem that a very healthy tendency to consume more fruit is being officially discouraged. However, forbidden fruit somehow or other has a sweeter taste, unless some misguided individual has the bad luck to pocket a lemon, in which case his sly smile will rapidly turn to a pucker...
When he was nine, he took to arguing with his father about art and his mother started teaching him music. His sisters went off to London to study ballet dancing, and John decided to go too. He danced doggedly for two years, gave it up because the students were forbidden to ride bicycles or horses. Back in art school he switched from painting to sculpture because he liked the physical exertion of carving. At 17, he decided he was old enough to enlist in the British Army but that year the War ended. He left home, got along...