Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years ago when the Rochester zoo elephant died, Ward's bought the carcass, macerated and stripped off the flesh, sold the skeleton piecemeal. .The best human skeletons now come from Mexico since he U. S. S. R. has forbidden their exportation. Inferior ones are bought from India and Japan...
...demonstrate the unhalting victory march of our cultural life, I have by decree forbidden all criticism and replaced it with art observation or art description...
...individual whose person or property is endangered in a country at war. It is the fault of the American people if they don't know enough to stay at home and to keep their money in domestic pockets. Even Washington seems dubious of foreign entanglements, as they have recently forbidden American representatives to marry foreign-born women...
...Filipinos would try to ditch him to make the Moros, who are practically excluded from representation in the Commonwealth Government, into a completely subject people. In recognition that open hostilities were at hand, the Government constabulary in the Sulu Islands was reinforced and for the first time Moros were forbidden to wear their traditional arms, krises, barongs, kampilans. Many Moro datus, maharajahs, panglimas and imams retired to their secret strongholds to prepare for the struggle...
...jail for rioting, made a scornful speech which inspired Shaw in writing Arms and the Man, organized the Scottish Labour Party, built up close friendships with William Morris, Joseph Conrad, Hudson and Parnell. He disguised himself as a doctor, traveled to Morocco in 1897 in search of a forbidden city, was imprisoned, returned to Scotland to rebuild his estate, covered South America buying horses and cattle during the War, helped found the Scottish Nationalist Party at the age of 76. With all this he wrote some 30 books, publishing the first when he was 43. He had returned to Buenos...