Word: forbiddingly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...production. For this reason, President Martin J. Condon of American Snuff told his stockholders last May that much depended on general business in the South. Negroes are the largest buyers, but many a white man in the South uses snuff. New England is another leading snuff area. Many factories forbid employes to smoke; they turn to snuff. New England sales have increased as the snuff habit has extended to younger consumers...
...Dutch transplanted cinchona trees to Java in 1854, now produce about 95% of the world's quinine. The British, from transplants to India, produce most of the rest. The Soviets, to economize on quinine, forbid its use as an appetizer, abortifacient or anything but a malaria antidote...
...Buckley started to do last week, after the Edgewater Board of Education had reluctantly (because it feared legal complications) voted him $50 for Harold's treatment. But this socially intelligent medication the boy's parents, the houseboat dwellers, suddenly and in their legal right decided to forbid...
Last week the War Department forbade the sort of interment that Mrs. Wiley wanted. She wished to erect a great monument. Regulations forbid any grave marker for enlisted men other than a plain stone of standard design. So Mrs. Wiley picked Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington for the burial. Then the War Department changed its Arlington rules for her. In the section called "Field of the Dead" she last week buried her husband with full military honors. On the plot she will put a large memorial, engraved: "Father of the Pure Food Laws...
...grandmother when it ends, still hale if not as hearty as she has been. Jane is the younger daughter of a well-to-do conservative Chicago family. When she falls in love with André, 19-year-old French boy who wants to be a sculptor, her parents forbid them to see each other. Later Jane marries Stephen, a perfectly respectable match, but is never really in love with him. In her long married life she has only one affair, with the never-do-well husband of one of her best friends, but after he has kissed her she sends...