Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Authoress Seymour spent her British childhood in a strict Nonconformist atmosphere in which theatres and dancing were taboo. Unrestricted reading, however, left a loophole for Satan. After three years of co-educational schooling she made a living doing secretarial work, studying literature meanwhile under Sir Israel Gollancz at King's College. Married to a poet, poetically inclined herself, she started novel writing when her husband was off in the Air Force during the War. Almost a dozen novels followed, of which four have already been published in the U. S.: Three Wives, Youth Rides Out, False Spring...
...about limiting the freedom of the college press, from the University of Northwestern comes the report of a series of restrictions by which the morality of the editor will be strictly guarded from any taint. In the new order of sweetness and light, any reference to birth control is taboo; Miss Margaret Sanger is not to be named in print; Al Capone and his boy friends must not be mentioned; no stories may be printed reflecting on the morality of coeds at Northwestern or any other school, not even Chicago; nothing which ridicules or criticises the administration, the curricula...
This subject (since the American Red Cross had refused succor [TIME, Dec. 10, 1928], and since the U. S. now has its own drought-hunger problems) has become taboo in despatches. Nevertheless 8,000,000 Chinese have starved to death in the present Great Famine (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928 et seq.) and 1,000,000 more soon will starve to death, the China Famine Relief (Manhattan) estimates...
...only distinction between a major and minor sport is the difference in the size of the letter awarded. Since the wearing of letter sweaters at Harvard is practically taboo the matter is of relatively small importance here. The athlete who has won his insignia rarely ever wears it except in practice sessions and during the summer months. There is also a certain tradition built around the athletic curriculum which designates the various sports...
Smoking has always been taboo in the vicinity of lecture rooms, and other places of study regardless of the fire-proof nature of the buildings, Boughton stated. The close association between the laboratories themselves, the classrooms, and the library, where smoking would be out of the question, render any exception in the case of the corridors impossible as it would be difficult to draw line where smoking should begin and end. Extra caretakers to enforce the rule are unwanted, and a burden would be placed on the cleaners...