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Thus the loose Croud forbidden Pleasures seek...
...unique trade-the building of zeppelins. The late Graf von Zeppelin taught them the technique of their art and paid them well. During the War all Germany looked to them to float tons of explosives over London. Then came Versailles, and the building of zeppelins for Germany was forbidden. Almost, the great Zeppelin factories were ordered destroyed. Almost, the "zeppelin guild" on Lake Constance was scattered. These things did not take place because the Allies, covetous of reparations, agreed to accept payment in zeppelins...
...lived for a while at La Verna, and the Fascist Government -in the person of the Minister of Public Instruction, Signor Fedele -marched through the streets of Assisi. Donna Tittoni, wife of the president of the Senate, heads a committee to design simple fashions for women. Imported luxuries are forbidden. Passports will be refused, during the Franciscan year, for any travel for pleasure outside the country. The nation is asked to suffer cold that the consumption of coal may be limited. Just what these manifestations of national parsimony and party politics have to do with dead Jack Bernardone nobody...
...system there might be a considerable ter-migration of both students and teachers from one institution to another. Students would incidentally have freedam to become pupils of one master in one institution and of another in another, as was the practice in the Middle Ages. Now they are practically forbidden such migration by the attitude of collegiate communities toward those who thus admit superiority in any respect in others or the suspicious feeling toward those who come, having left other liege loyalties. In the Middle Ages young men eager for instruction, "glad to acquire learning without immuring themselves in monasteries...
...issue of TIME, Aug. 16, under heading, Hygienic, Moral, the following: "At the city of Mantua, famed citadel of sturdy Etruscans, the local Fascist Prefect issued a well pondered order last week: 'For the remainder of the present summer all males in the Province of Mantua are forbidden to dance in public. This order has been promulgated for hygiene and moral reasons...