Word: prohibitive
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Honored Sir:--I inclose to you, sir, a copy of a letter which I have today sent to the Honorable Mayor Peters of City Hall, asking him to prohibit in this city at the Boston Opera House performances of "The Mikado...
Honorable Sir:--As president of the Society for American-Japanese Peace, I ask you, on behalf of the Japanese residents of your city to prohibit the proposed performances at the Boston Opera House of that scandalous libel on the people of Japan, "The Mikado...
...understand, within your power as Mayor, to prohibit its performance here, and I trust that in the interests of world peace, and the continued friendship of America and Japan you will do so. Respectfully, S. HARIMOTO...
Ever since the eighteenth amendment went into effect, we have been deluged with jokes about what the Women's Christian Temperance Union will prohibit next. 'We have been told that one thing after another will be fought: first liquor, then tobacco, then tea and coffee, and so on until they have succeeded in passing amendments, prohibiting carrying matches, and the chewing of gum on Sundays. We have seen such jokes' continually, and have been more or less amused at the incongruous products of the writer's imagination...
...Scotch are proverbially slow in realizing a joke and many other matters. But they have now waked up to the insidious inroads of the "Pussyfoot" campaign for prohibition in their bonnie land. Long advertisements with two grinning black cats at top and bottom are confronting the readers of Scottish newspapers demanding "a firm stand for self-determination" and in asking, in bold, black type. "Why not prohibit Pusayfoot?" Scotch blood is running hot over the sheer intemperance of the prohibi...