Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WEREWOLF-Largely concerned with a topic usually taboo in polite conversation. Admissible for its sage and finished playing...
Able correspondent Frank R. Kent compiled a list of things the discussion of which is taboo for each party...
...gasoline is $2 a gallon in Berlin, fat chauffeurs are taboo, owing to the fact that their weight increases running charges. The wealthy now advertise for "short, slim chauffeurs, about the size and weight of jockeys...
Recitals of chamber music are usually serious functions, attended by serious souls, with cultured dignity at heart. Generally there is only discreet applause; high enthusiasm is taboo, also encores...
...entire town of Sulphur Springs, Arkansas, and establish there a new institution of higher learning, to be known as John Brown University. The purpose behind taking ever the community as a unit, including the hotels and amusement centers, is to insure that dancing, jazz, gambling and profanity be utterly taboo...