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Presumably because the size of the room permits of high visibility with the naked eye the use of binoculars is habitually forbidden in the Senate chamber (there is no written rule). The House is much larger; its denizens are correspondingly more difficult to observe...
...Fauves was a name which connoted merely an astonished and timidly inimical attitude of the public but it served as a better definition than the abstractions since invented by incoherently appreciative critics. Matisse was forbidden the Beaux-Arts studio because Parisians of that period took painting seriously. He was poor and went to Algeria where he picked up notions of design which have been clear in his painting ever since. A Russian merchant by the name of Stchoukine discovered him and took him to Moscow, to do murals in his music room...
Moscow children under 16 were forbidden, last week, to attend the ancient Douglas Fairbanks cinema Don Q, Son of Zorro "to protect their immature minds from the contamination of its bourgeois ideology...
Fortnight ago the Turkish Consul-General at New York told the Merchants' Association that his country was "desirous to come in touch with societies interested in hogs." Because pig-flesh is forbidden food to Moslems, he explained, Turkey is becoming overrun with wild swine. Perhaps some U. S. concern would like the concession for de-pigging Turkey...
...partly to the fact that Tokyo is so far from other gold marts that a wide spread always gapes between parity of the yen and the point at which it would be profitable to ship out gold. Since Sept. 12, 1917 gold exports from Japan have been forbidden but the embargo will be lifted simultaneously with formal stabilization...