Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unity. For three days the word "Communism" was taboo on the convention floor, was whispered only in corridors and 'caucuses. On the fourth day it exploded on the floor after a Denver "regular" presented a resolution cautiously condemning subversive movements, "Trojan horses or fifth columns." Up sprang a Seattle insurgent to offer an amendment: "That Communism, Naziism and Fascism are not . . . indicative of [the Guild's] beliefs . . . and that this organization will not tolerate any attempt by these subversive elements to ... control [Guild] policies...
Brother Orchid (Warner). The making of movies is ringed about by taboos. But no commercial taboo is quite so terrifying as religious touchiness. Nevertheless, Hollywood has never been able to master an occasional whim to toy with the dangerous topic of religion. Brother Orchid is such a toying. It celebrates the spiritual regeneration of Edward G. Robinson (a gangster) by monastic life...
...Remembering this partiality of his. I think I shall send him a big cask of sake. The only drawback is that he must be more careful of his health. He has diabetes and alcohol is taboo. If his wife or secretary gets hold of the cask, the game's cooked...
Taken from their parents at the age of six, Indian children have been subjected to execrable' food and housing, cruel discipline, the most rudimentary education, an absolute taboo on their native language, continuous propaganda to despise their parents, their religion, their legends, their arts, their race. Through the Allotment Act (1887) the reservations were so checkered and subdivided that free movement, tribal unity, and cattle raising became impossible. Of tribal funds held in trust the Government spent 93% on "administrative costs." Every stratagem was worked to acquire for white use key lands along watercourses without which the surrounding territory...
...Taboo in the Thomas family of Baltimore were dancing, card playing, the theatre, discussion of politics and sex, quarreling and demonstrativeness. But the Thomases, descendants of Quaker Founder George Fox, were not such strict Quakers as Grandmother Whitall: when she came visiting, they hid the piano. Under great stress one of the family taboos might be broken: Dr. Thomas made an apoplectic exception to denounce Cleveland as too radical. When it came time to tell the children about the Facts of Life, Dr. Thomas said it was Mrs. Thomas' place to tell their four sons, and that their four...