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Martial law was proclaimed by royal decree and all artillery officers were suspended ad interim from their commands, deprived of their pay, and forbidden to wear their uniforms. Exceptions to this order were made only in the case of artillery officers on active service in Morocco...
...perhaps the fathers had been over-zealous in their ministrations to the accelerator. Had they been gallopading? Driving with one hand ? Gas-hawking, road-hogging? Amazed that good Catholics could ask such well-nigh blasphemous questions, Bishop O'Connor made answer. For no such ribald reason had he forbidden motor vehicles. He simply felt, he explained, that priests in the city did not need them...
...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...
...What are male citizens of the province of Mantua, Italy, forbidden to do for moral and hygienic reasons...
...debated. Does it debase a freeman to accept a tip from a peer who, born his equal, also happened to be born with more money? The Yeas have hung up signs in their restaurants, boot-parlors, or what not, saying "Please do not tip," or "Our Employes Are Strictly Forbidden to Accept Gratuities from Strangers." The Nays remind their patrons: "Don't Forget the Hat Girl." Will new signs appear, "A Waiter's Life Is No Cinch"-"Give Your Bus Boy a Few Days at the Seaside?" Will lounging millonaires be requested to "Send Your Doorman...