Word: forbidding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heaven? Bachelor Lewis is no man to be afraid of that one either: "The letter and spirit of Scripture, and of all Christianity, forbid us to suppose that life in the New Creation will be a sexual life; and this reduces our imagination to the withering alternative either of bodies which are hardly recognizable as human bodies at all or else of a perpetual fast. As regards the fast, I think our present outlook might be like that of a small boy who, on being told that the sexual act was the highest bodily pleasure, should immediately ask whether...
...Washington, the commission ex plained that it could not forbid Dr. Moon to teach in Canada; but neither could it promise forgiveness for everything he might do or say in future. If he divulged official secrets during lectures in Canada, he would certainly be in bad. Furthermore, he had better keep away altogether from Chalk River, Canada's Government center of nuclear research, and he certainly could not continue as a consultant...
...penguins' conclave, the dhoti (loin cloth), sherwani (tunic), jibba (smock) and achkan (long coat) now held pride of place. Rohini Kumar Chowdhry, Assam's long-haired, wild-eyed member of the Constituent Assembly, demanded a special clause in the new Constitution's bill of rights to forbid any hotel displaying "Evening Clothes Only...
...Hecht screenplay is Adolph Menjou playing a Hollywood producer whose movies nosedive until he meets a wholesome miss (Andrea Leeds) with the proper pedestrian slant concerning what the public wants. She becomes his private consultant--"Miss Humanity"--on the plain citizen's tastes in story twists. Instructions explicitly forbid her mingling in film colony circles where she might "go Hollywood;" one night she dares venture into a hamburger wagon where Kenny Baker sings while he flips ("love walked right in . . . and drove the shadows away") in a romantic golden voice custom-built for Mr. Plain Citizen. Sugar daddy Menjou gets...
Chicago, said the U.S.P.H.S., is too hospitable to rats. City laws forbid public exterminators to spread loose poison on private premises. But private exterminators work only in and immediately around buildings. That leaves a "no man's land'' in every backyard, which the rats have been quick to discover...