Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states,* they noted, have Jim Crow laws. Eighteen states specifically forbid segregation. Said Justice Reed, of Kentucky: segregation imposes an undue burden on interstate commerce. In other words, it is too much trouble to have bus riders changing seats as buses roll from one state to another. The Justices held that segregation on interstate buses is illegal...
...American Standard: "But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, forbid them not; for to such belongeth the kingdom...
...King James: "But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, 'Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom...
...monopoly union, dealing with substantially all production in the industry, asserts as its future policy that it aims to settle the problems of wages, prices and profits for the entire industry around the bargaining table. ... [If this happens] our antitrust laws, which require competition and forbid collusive combinations between labor and management, must fall...
Shaw having fun means, sooner or later, Shaw having fun at society's expense. Pygmalion rags aristocratic pretensions by showing how easily aristocrats can be manufactured; it whacks away at middle-class morality, which would forbid all pleasure to the poor. But the satire in Pygmalion has worn less well than the comedy. Much the funniest scene in the play is Eliza's first appearance in society: with the purest, pear-shaped tones and impeccable enunciation, she recounts the horrendous yarn of how her gin-swilling aunt was "done...