Word: verbotener
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...Spielschar, organ of the Hitler Youth Movement, moped long and heavily over this question. Die Spielschar agreed that the motions prescribed by swing are unworthy of a sober man, but protested that rump-slapping peasant dances were equally inappropriate for sophisticated Germans. With these two categories of dancing verboten, there would be nothing left but waltzes. "For those who seek a way to graceful and natural German dancing," sighed Die Spielschar, "the points of departure . . . are terrifyingly...
Last week Nazification of Vienna's State Opera House left Composer Offenbach's lone opera on the shelf of verboten masterpieces. Reason: Composer Offenbach was a Jew. But yesterday's operetta-loving Vienna would have been a very different place without Composer Offenbach's influence. It was Composer Offenbach who invented and introduced to Vienna the kind of operetta that helped make Vienna famous...
...anticipated pleasure in looking at, and identifying, many of the august (?) members of the upper house, including Borah, Glass, Tom Tom Heflin who mortally fears, etc. Imagine my chagrin when I lifted my glasses to my eyes, to be told by the doorkeeper that it was verboten to make use of opera glasses in the Senate galleries...
...more efficient administration of the library. It is inconvenient enough to be obliged to wait for books during the hours that the library is open, without being hampered by the further stringent regulations in force at Fogg. There one finds the use of books outside the Reading Room verboten. In the case of volumes of prints, some slight cause exists in the possibility of damage in transit; but for ordinary textbooks there is no reason for not having the same opportunity of taking books to one's room as in the other departments of the Library...
...experiment. The Reading Period, it has been said, depend for a fair trial upon the co-operation of Library and student. The Library's assistance has been wholehearted and complete, that of the student deserves no impairment at the hands of the thoughtless. No one would wish a permanent "verboten" to be hung on communication in the Reading Room, but it would be not unagreeable if a tacit agreement of this nature should be in control for this month, at least. It is an unflattering paradox to the excellent co-operation of the Library during the Reading Period that within...