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Last week the newscasters put the matter up to their home offices. Excluded from visits to battle fronts, forbidden to quote directly from German newspapers, forbidden to so much as mention the current anti-Semitic drive or Gestapo rule in Czecho-Slovakia, they were further annoyed by Nazi blue pencilers who tried to add to their copy as well as slash...
...hear his mates calling him. For twelve hours he whooped and hollered and kicked at rats. Next morning he stripped off his long woolen underwear, touched a match to it. The smudge in the well got so thick he had to don his gas mask. Because smoking was strictly forbidden, an angry sergeant soon discovered him, rescued Private Sauter...
Swindle Sheets. In Denver, State liquor inspectors on duty with expense accounts were forbidden to engage rooms with baths more than once a week...
Exactly why A.T. & T. stockholders were so reckless was a Wall Street mystery. Many of them ignored the letter sent with the bulky, legally worded prospectus, got no "job-up" letter to enlighten them (something A.T. & T. is neither obliged nor forbidden to do). Another reason was plain carelessness. The rights expired on the Labor Day weekend, when many a shareholder was more interested in golf than gilt-edged bonds...
...prude, the parson wisely reinterprets the Methodist Discipline to fit changing times. Discovering that his son has been to a movie (forbidden), he takes him to another, to point out what there is in the picture that is bad for him to see. The picture (a 24-year-old William S. Hart film, The Silent Man) so thoroughly wows the pastor that he uses the movie as a text for his Sunday sermon...