Word: tabooed
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...Kansas City Star itself is its reputation for taboos. Its late great founder William Rockhill Nelson 50 years ago kept a list of persons who must not be mentioned in the Star's columns. Moreover, Colonel Nelson being portly, no Star cartoonist dared caricature a fat man. The present-day taboo of the Star and its morning running-mate, the Times, is less explicable, more picturesque. For reasons of his own Publisher George Baker Longan will not permit snakes to be pictured or mentioned...
...Wendel died, he left $80,000,000 in real estate, $10 in clothing. He also left a tradition as to how the property was to be managed. He and his sisters had long agreed that theatres or saloons should never be allowed on their properties. Electric signs were equally taboo. They established a record in Puritanism when they held up a $1,000,000 lease until they obtained guarantees that certain first-aid kits in the projected building would not contain more than one pint of whiskey. The main tradition handed on by Brother John had been long...
...Taboo and Spinning. Up to the time Alfred Emanuel Smith ran for President, U. S. journalists were prevented by taboo from writing religious facts into political despatches, even if they thought them paramount. Taboo keeps off the front page Mr. Gandhi's use of Christian acts as a weapon against men with Christian beliefs. Only in exceptional publications like Asia (U. S. monthly) has the religious side of India's passive battle with England been described at graphic length by men like "Upton Close" (pseudonym of Joseph Washington Hall, probably the greatest historian of contemporary Asia, certainly the one closest...
When Traveler LoBagola, n, returned home, he was received but with suspicion. For transgressing a taboo (insolence to his elder brother) he was beaten on the soles of his feet by seven people, considered himself lucky to escape so lightly. Then after 14 months' preparation he was married to six girls at once. But Gooma, his favorite bride, broke a terrible taboo at' the wedding: embraced him in public. She was unsexed, had her left breast cut off, was sent to the King's bodyguard of Amazons. By his other wives LoBagola became the father...
...Evans Hughes as Chief Justice, before the Senate for confirmation. Because his appointment was discussed under the Senate's new open-session rules, all the world could follow the bitter ebb and flow of debate which a year ago would have been secret. Likewise thrown aside was the taboo that the Supreme Court is sacrosanct and thus above criticism...