Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harriet Craig (Rosalind Russell), Walter Craig (John Boles), is simply a means to an end - having a house of her own which, spotlessly neat, secure against all intrusions, symbolizes perfectly her own empty meanness. Craig submits peacefully when forbidden to smoke in doors, entertain his friends or go out for an evening of poker. He even smiles indulgently when Mrs. Craig runs his aunt out of the house, insults a friendly grand mother who lives next door and drives the servants into giving notice. It is a long worm which has no turning. Walter Craig's rebellion starts when...
...treatment of disease or illness. Such appliances or agencies as the chiropractic tables, hammer, towels or other instrumentalities which are clearly sanitary do not violate the statute, but the use of various therapeutic agencies, such as electro-therapeuty are embraced in the practice of medicine and therefore are forbidden to chiropractors...
...Tokyo flashed a stiff diplomatic note replying to that in which Britain last July 15 announced that she has "invoked the escalator clause" of the London Naval Treaty. In plain words this meant that because Adolf Hitler has torn up the Treaty of Versailles and is building Germany a forbidden navy, Stanley Baldwin has torn up the limitations on British naval building in the London Treaty. Unlike Herr Hitler, Mr. Baldwin has a perfect right to do this, as have President Roosevelt and Emperor Hirohito, for the Treaty provides that any signatory may take the imaginary "escalator" up to greater...
Joan is a jobless showgirl whose agent Nicky (Gregory Ratoff) gets national publicity for her when Farraday, a famed film actor with Shakespearean inclinations, fancies her as his ideal Juliet. Vigorously vacationing, but forbidden alcohol, Farraday is kept supplied by Nicky with bay rum ("South American brandy"), which he absorbs out of a hot-water bottle, through a straw. Stimulated, Romeo is madly in love with Juliet. Sober, he has no use for her. Kidnapped by his manager to keep him out of trouble, Romeo is chased across the U. S. by Juliet and Nicky, finally corralled for a radio...
...herd of antelope 27 miles in 45 minutes in his automobile. Nearly an eighth of the 40,000 pronghorn antelopes in the U. S. roam over Rancher Belden's 200.000 acres in the Meeteetsee Valley. Few years ago they were so near extinction that hunting them was _ forbidden. As a result they have multiplied immensely, eaten more than their share of Rancher Belden's grass. Lately he got permission to sell a few. Last week Rancher Belden's unique sales methods made headlines in two continents...