Word: taboos
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...biggest, "snootiest" of the Houses, draws the same type of youth as Dunster, but is cut up into social cliques. Three years ago its Master, Professor Roger Bigelow ("Frisky") Merriman, showed such zeal in entertaining socially desirable freshmen that other House Masters complained that he was violating a tacit taboo against proselyting. Result was that the Dean's Office took over the job of assigning freshmen to Houses, switched squads of private school men away from Eliot and Dunster. With the social balance somewhat evened, the Masters last year got back with restrictions, the privilege of picking their...
...Year's week for Washington's young blades and merry maidens. The President is generally on hand to beam benignly upon the offspring of Administration bigwigs as they frisk around in tails and trains at the scene of their parents' highest social triumph. The only taboo at such White House parties is taking young ladies behind potted palms...
...must this subject be taboo? Are we not entitled to discuss and weigh the physical fitness of our public servants as well as their morals, patriotism and statesmanship? If not, then...we can safely prophesy that this generation will not pass away before a despot sits in the White House and we can righteously withhold our pity from the milksops, nincompoops and sycophants, who then make up the population, as unworthy of any other fate than to bear the cruel hand of oppression...
...campaign of 1932 to down rumors that his health was too poor to survive the rigors of the Presidency. The Press has studiously refrained from referring to the condition of his legs. Citizens have bitterly resented even the most oblique reference to it in public. It was taboo. Were it not for occasional press photographs showing him steadying himself on the arm of an aide, future historians could hardly guess from news reports of the day that the 32nd President of the U. S. was any different, physically, from his 30 predecessors in office...
...handy when the allowances were at the breaking point was "Mo-sukoshi." All of which is more significant as "a little more"...If the morals of geisha girls left much to be desired they were certainly compensated for by the taxi regulations. It seems that there is an unfortunate taboo on escorting ladies home in taxis after midnight. So the procedure was to send the poor girls home alone...At least the taxi fares were reasonable. The barter system is in full force and you try one fellow after another until you get the best buy. It all averages about...