verbotens

Updated: May 11, 2025

The ball room was big, barn-like, with green branches and cheap flowers strung about. Aprons, napkins, table cloths, bills of fare, and other insignia of the waitress profession filled in the local color of the decorations on the walls. There was not one of the everlasting Verbotens to be seen. Alcoves containing tables and chairs ranged around.

Stuart Oliver Henry - Villa Elsa: A Story of German Family Life

This boy could have more influence in making me see the German view-point than the propagandist men in the Government offices and the belligerent German-Americans in hotel lobbies those German-Americans who were so frequently in trouble in other days for disobeying the verbotens and then asking our State Department to get them out of it, now pluming themselves over victories won by another type of German.

Frederick Palmer - My Year of the War: Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and: the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the: First Time in its Complete Form