Word: verbotener
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...sounds, Detroit was glad to get a specific rule on brightwork. Automotive engineers have stewed over the problem for months without knowing just what goal they were working towards. Furthermore, Leon's order may not prove so tough. Stainless steel is not-as yet-on the list of verboten materials. Even if that is taken away, the automakers have plenty of substitutes. Ford has perfected an all-glass tail light; General Motors has some highly lustrous enamels; almost all makers have new decorative plastics. These should keep U.S. cars the flashiest in the world...
...Nazi victory-Viktoria-thereby impairing the purity of the German vocabulary by importing a foreign word, for the native German word for victory is Sieg. Germans were urged to use the symbol. In rendering this decision Dr. Goebbels made a mistake: since the V-sign was no longer verboten, the Germans could not suppress...
Standard Hollywood practice would have been to convert "Kitty Foyle," Christopher Morley's "natural history of a woman," into an innocuous boy-meets-girl romance. The verboten questions of social caste and childbirth out of wedlock might have been replaced by sticky sentimentality and irrelevant filler scenes. Ginger Rogers could have devoted her talents to singing and dancing rather than to acting. But, with unusual regard for Morley's novel, the producers of "Kitty Foyle" brought this cross section of a white collar girl's emotions to the screen with almost all its original insight and realism...
Taking a leaf from the Nazi-verboten Old Testament, where King David got rid of Bathsheba's husband by having him set "in the forefront of the hottest battle . . . that he may be smitten and die." the Nazis mobilized over 55% of Germany's Protestant pastors for Army service, most of them as privates. They singled out Confessional pastors especially. In some districts 75% of the recalcitrant Confessional pastors were drafted for front-line service...
Plundered Larder. On the verboten list last week were placed all the meringue, almond paste and cream cakes dear to the palates of Frenchmen. A drastic shortage of sugar, flour, cream and butter caused the percentage of sweetening in cakes to be reduced to 10% of the contents, and the sale of all pastry to be prohibited on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. In restaurants a new decree provided that neither fish nor cheese could be served with a meat meal and that meat could not be included in meals served after 3 p.m. except on Sundays and holidays. As rationing...