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...Entrance is forbidden to women who are not properly dressed; that is to say, those who do not have the head covered and do not wear high-necked dress with long sleeves...
Well do I remember a couple of hours spent one morning in that study, when each of us ought to have been at work at something else, so that our conversation enjoyed the added flavour which goes with forbidden fruit. It began with Ulrich von Hutten; I have forgotten where it ended. In those two hours of conversation I learned more about medical history and more about the persistence of certain queer traits in human nature than could be got from months of study by the most approved method of research. What he said was like Smollett and Gibbon: Smollett...
...first time in the history of the U. S. Navy, two women were court- martialed. Ruth M. Anderson and Katherine. C. Glancy, naval nurses, were charged with bringing forbidden liquors into the U. S. in their luggage aboard the U. S. S. Kittery...
Almost alone among the states, Florida has practised encouraging rather than penalizing capitalists through her tax laws. State income and inheritance taxes there have been forbidden by the Florida Constitution. Gloomy critics prophesied that the loss to the state from these sources of revenue would have to be made up by heavy taxes in other directions...
...service to society and they deserve all the more sympathy if that service is one which the average man finds unpleasant. They have every right to discuss the technique of their work and its improvement without arousing anger or scorn. I may add, also, for presumably it is not forbidden the son of an undertaker to have his lighter moments, that an undertaker is usually called upon after a doctor has failed in his work. Undertaking may not be a branch of Medicine, but at least it is a worthy and dignified occupation deserving no reproof. EWELL HOUND. TIME...