Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Equalizer. In Huntington, W.Va., bald Councilman R. J. Wilkinson Jr. pushed a measure to forbid barbers to charge baldies more than 25? for haircuts...
Other Houses, however, balked at the idea of femininity in their forthcoming productions and either dispensed with heroines or offered buxom upperclassmen in their stead. Puritanical Eliot will even forbid women in their "Merry Wives of Windsor" audience...
...felt for a number of years that more money can be raised for individual charities through an efficient Service Fund Drive than through ten or twelve individual campaigns. In return for this, the student body should be protected from further solicitations. However, the Council has no power to forbid any group to use the mails; this is a case in point. Ray A. Goldberg, Harvard Student Council...
...Amish of Wayne, Holmes and Tuscarawas Counties, Ohio, are among the ' plainest of the picture-book Plain People. Their men wear buttonless dark blue overalls and jackets, wide-brimmed black hats and beards. Their women go in bonnets and shoe-length black dresses. With fierce rectitude, they forbid themselves automobiles, electricity, telephones and tractors, rather than engender the sin of pride...
...Europe and Africa, financed and helped to edit a Paris literary review (Nouvelle Revue Franfaise) that acquired a small but secure world reputation. He had married his cousin Emmanuele, but the Journals make it clear that it was a marriage of convenience. ("But of everything concerning [Emmanuele] I forbid myself to speak here...