Word: abstainers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been well known that His Holiness, like very many elderly men of immaculate habits, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. The infirmity can become painful, can cause bladder distress, uremia. The specialists decided that there was at least no immediate necessity of prostatectomy, relieved him by catheterization, advised him to abstain from many papal obligations. Such advice His Holiness, a man of indomitable will, of course disregarded for the nonce. Perhaps after the public investiture of his new cardinals his household would persuade him to retire to the balmy hills above Rome...
...taking plays to pieces as Guest Critic of the New York World, spoke with modest and mellow good humor: "Anybody can take Shakespeare's plays to pieces," said he, "but only Shakespeare could put them together. . . . There is no such thing as a flawless play. Shakespeare could not abstain from making puns...
...British salt monopoly,* when he should break British law by scooping up a little sea water and publicly evaporating it to recover a mere pinch of salt?what then? Would enough Indians respond to this, the agreed signal for nonviolent, mass civil disobedience? Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,? buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands...
...personal taste that guides them. In this aspect the poll brings the weight of fact to the old contention that legislation is without effect in such moral and personal issues as the use of alcohol. Undergraduates drink if they choose to drink; even those who abstain flout the Constitution in principle if not in actual deed...