Word: tabooed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week Admiral Okada ordered opened up in the Premier's Official Residence the room in which "Old Fox" Inukai was done to death. Furnished in Japanese style, this room is covered with mats on which statesmen may squat as their forefathers did. Since the assassination squatting has been taboo, with Premier Saito using chairs and tables in the new style rooms of the Official Residence. Last week Premier Okada went enthusiastically back to squatting. He called back to their portfolios the outstanding members of the Saito Cabinet except famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi in whose department the bribe scandal...
...Edgar published a book called My Father, it was of men, not conditions that he spoke. In fact, Son Edgar threw open the door on the bitter meetings of that unhappy Labor Cabinet in which George Lansbury was First Commissioner of Works. In so doing he violated the British taboo that Cabinet discussions are sacred. Edgar had consulted neither the King nor the Prime Minister. George V did not much care. But Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald cared very much. The Government banned My Father and the publishers withdrew it to cut out the Cabinet memoranda. Omitted from the new edition...
...analysis of the situation seems sound and his figures will be useful in a member of ways. His objectivity in a number so full of subjective assertion gives a welcome relief. His article has an additional interest to me for it signalizes the end of what was other a taboo or a scare: when I was editing a Harvard magazine I tried for two years, quite unsuccessfully, to get someone to discuss his subject. Mr. Philbrick's "A Communist View of Art" is a well written rhapsody which states a new conventionalized thesis. The intellectuals are greatly exercised just...
...deliberations progressed, it seemed clear that economic conflicts do not in themselves cause war. Taboo was any open discussion of the violent Sino-Japanese emotional and political hatred. But in the corridors war was talked and especially titillating was "the coming war between Japan and America." Japan's peace-loving Inazo Nitobe, who might be assassinated back home if he said the wrong thing, forced the Canadian press to deny that he had ever predicted a Japanese-Russian...
...plane, identified by a large black star on the fuselage. Each plane, with a crew of two pilots, a radioman & mechanic, is equipped with a pneumatic lifeboat. Each man has a sort of light diving suit in which he can live for half an hour under water. Taboo as provisions are liquor and chicken. To Italian airmen fowl is a jinx...