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Cards and bowling were the most popular of the forbidden pleasures. In 1835, 31 students were fined $2 apiece for attending a dancing school. Theatrical performances, permitted for a short time, were even banned because of the resulting disturbances of the peace in this quiet little hamlet, nesting peacefully at the foothills of the White Mountains...
...solos won high praise last week. Outstanding feature came at the second concert when prodigious Ruggiero Ricci, aged 9, played his violin in Mendelssohn's E Minor Concerto. Because of pending litigation between his parents and his guardian, Violinist Mary Elizabeth Lackey (TIME, Aug. 11), young Ricci had been forbidden to leave New York State unguarded by police. Two stalwart officers accompanied him to the very stage of Mechanics Hall, but the boy was apparently unmoved by the stir they caused, or by the presence in the front row of his watchful father. With great self-possession he scraped...
...zebras, kudu, buffalo, inyala, gazelle, red hartebeest were killed. Only one small herd of the red hartebeest exists today in Zululand. Another victim of native cattlemen is the rare white rhinoceros. Because there are only 47 of these animals left in British East Africa, the government has forbidden the killing of them there. A discovery which may furnish a better method of controlling the spread of sleeping sickness was announced recently by R. H. T. P. Harris, director of research in Zululand. He found the tsetse fly sensitive to pyrethrum (insect powder.) and veratrine (obtained from the root...
...terms of the Versailles Treaty, Germany is forbidden all military aircraft...
Other social customs observed by Dr. Powdermaker: a husband is forbidden to speak to his mother-in-law, mention her in public, enter a room which she occupies. Having no conception of time the New Irishmen's night life is governed solely by the moon. On bright nights they carouse mightily, disport themselves happily. Particularly happy are they when someone dies or is born when the moon is full. Such events are celebrated with feasts which frequently get out of control and last for a month...