Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Record of Stewardship. In Poland, forbidden ground to foreign journalists since September 1939, the first year of Nazi stewardship resulted in two balance sheets. One, a glowing account of pacification and reconstruction, originated in Cracow, headquarters of the German Gouvernement Général. It announced that...
...campaign year. Besides, Mr. Roosevelt, more forehanded than Jefferson, had thought to arm himself. Attorney General Jackson in an opinion had found that the President, as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, was not only authorized to provide bases to defend the U. S., he was forbidden to "risk any delay." He also argued that the President had authority to dispose of naval vessels. And since no money was involved in the deal Congress did not have to be asked for an appropriation. Legal or not, the deal was done...
...they did in Brussels before Waterloo, British officers danced late in London last week. In Berlin there was no dancing. Dancing is forbidden in Germany as a frivolity out of keeping with war. In Britain they danced to show their nerve-and because they could not sleep. Berliners looked at the wreckage of their homes, remembered that they had been told their city was impregnable, said nothing. Londoners shook their fists at the sky. As sirens wailed and fires burned, as the war of mutual destruction gained fury, stolid Germans and the scarcely more volatile British alike wondered if this...
Chanler scandalized the school by major breaches of good form. He jumped into an icy pond (strictly forbidden) to win a $50 bet, got kicked out of the Concordian Literary Society for reciting nasty verses, bootlegged pistols to his schoolmates. His crowning escapade was a clandestine prize fight he staged to raise money to buy a motorcycle. Having primed his second to soak his gloves with water so that he could hit his opponent harder, Chanler went six rounds against a bigger boy before 150 delighted schoolmates (who paid $1 each), was knocked out in the seventh when his gloves...
...instrumentalists-including Violinists Jascha Heifetz and Efrem Zimbalist, Pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Jose Iturbi-and commanded them to join A. F. of M. by Labor Day. The alternative: they would be barred from radio and recording. The catch: once in A. F. of M. they would be forbidden to play as soloists with the Boston Symphony. Asked Mr. Petrillo: "Since when is there any difference between Heifetz playing a fiddle and the fiddler in a tavern? They're both musicians...