Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose blood he sucks, upon whose body he makes his permanent home. Among the bedbug's relations is the singing cicada, who lives on plants and, sucking, makes merry music. Unrelated is the louse but often cooperate. As the bedbug prefers an uncleanly environment, he is taboo as a subject of polite conversation...
Said he: "It is chiefly the press that has raised its voice loudest against the principle of medical ethics that places a taboo on advertising by the physician. It is readily admitted that the lifting of the ban . . . would result in a great financial gain to the press...
Efficiency is the motif of the times, so the colorful figures must go. It is true that the college will become more like an insurance office with its restrictions resulting from the connubial ties but the old levity is taboo. Weekends in New York must give way to shopping trips to buy Oscar Jr. a new kiddie car. Percy Marks will have to leave the field to the more domesticated Gertrude Atherton...
...Bible, as the infallible word of God, is being crucified on the cross of culture and neo-culture and nailed in place with the nails of taboo...
...poured freely in to establish Deutsches Haus. It was intended to be a focal point of German culture at Columbia and in Manhattan. But German culture, like Wagner operas at the Metro politan Opera House, disappeared from Manhattan during the War. Only last week did this last War-bred taboo disappear from Columbia...