Word: tabooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roughnecks wahooed out of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden when the gentlefolk of horsedom cantered in. Unmannerly broncos and bucking Brahman bulls were replaced by mannerly hunters and harness ponies, five-gaited mares that would no more buck than fly. The crowd was different too: vulgar cheers were taboo; from the Golden Oval of boxes came only polite applause, an occasional bravo that rang no rafters. With its black toppers, red tail coats and trumpets signaling the start of Manhattan's social season, last week the 63rd National Horse Show was in full swing...
...TIME jinx legend is something like the old baseball taboo - never, before the last out is called, tell the man on the mound that he is pitching a no-hit game (as if he didn't know it). If anybody gets a single, the informant is accused of jinxing the pitcher. Not only sports figures, but many other top news personalities (such as politicians, businessmen and generals) are engaged in highly competitive enterprises. They may, like Thomas Dewey, two weeks after an October 1944 cover, get knocked out of the box. They may, like Marshal Stalin after eight different...
Word did not get around that forward passing his taboo in the game of Rugby. Word also did not get around that most of Harvard's other first-stringers were in Cambridge nursing broken noses and separated shoulders...
Hollywood rarely approaches bullfighting on its own terms. Most Americans do not understand the spectacle, and the Production Code's taboo on scenes of cruelty to animals makes it a difficult subject to film. This week two new bullfighting movies entered the ring...
...Nieman Fellows reeled for a while this year as professor after professor, throw at them: "vis-a-vis this problem," and "vis-a-vis" that one. The phrase is taboo in every city room in the country--the peasants might not understand it. But as the year went on, and editors and publishers made evening talks to the group, it seems that the editors themselves are promoting this sort of thing. A quiet poll shows that Frank J. Starzel, general manager of The Associated Press, said vis-a-vis at 8:23 p.m., Carroll Binder, of the Minneapolis Tribune...