Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the Student Council report of 1937, the official University publications; such as the Harvard Athletic News, were forbidden to accept tutoring advertisements. According to the Council report, advertising has in a large measure contributed to the flourishing of the schools and has an obvious connection with respectability, especially in the eyes of incoming Freshmen...
...only for theatrical obscenity, profanity, sacrilege and references to royalty but also for possible insults to heads of foreign States. Last week, perusing the book and lyrics of a new London revue, Censor Lord Clarendon spotted a song entitled Even Hitler Had a Mother, hastily banned the piece. The forbidden ditty...
...margins as low as 5% instead of the 40% now required for stocks. Biggest inducement is that the Government, with its powers over the banking structure and its large trading operations in its own securities, can and does rig the market to protect its issues, which private financiers are forbidden...
...months in Tibet are described in Penthouse of the Gods. An unusual travel book, particularly outstanding for its photographs, it describes his journey from India through the 18,000-foot passes of the Himalayas, the diplomatic wangling which got him an official invitation to the "forbidden city" of Lhasa, his novitiate in the big monasteries of Drepung, Sera and Ganden, with monk populations from 5,000 to 10,000. The climax is, of course, the fussy, interminable ceremony at which he became a full-fledged Lama, a Western reincarnation of a long-dead Tibetan saint. For readers who picture Tibet...
...exiles want to return to Spain. Stories of dire reprisals awaiting them in Spain have reached the refugee camps by grapevine. Typical of how news travels among the refugees was the method adopted by a recent fugitive from Catalonia. Forbidden by French authorities to make a speech in the camp, he drew a map of Spain in the sand. Inside the outline he sketched a firing squad pointing their rifles at a group of civilians. No refugee misunderstood the man's meaning...