Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven-year-old girl from next door, stood in a line on the pavement to watch the black box carried out of the house, and stared round-eyed until the last carriage had turned the corner. Then, the next-to-largest black boy gave a tremendous leap from the curb into the gutter...
...heavy with potency, set amidst the whispering grandeur of mattresses, old iron, papers and rubber tires, joggled tracklessly through the streets of Springfield, Mass., borne on a junk wagon to ignominious barter. The frowzy-whiskered junkman shifted about in his seat when a motorcycle policeman ordered him to the curb, fluttered two dirty palms in astonishment. The officer settled on a blue mattress as a hawk onto a mouse, prospected deeper into the indiscernible vagaries in the rear of a junk-wagon, retrieved the humble shoebag, departed triumphantly with it for its heartbroken owner - one Peter Audaim - after informing...
...Fascismo's more intemperate ex-ponents-a fact which set rumors flying last week that Federzoni's abstention from the Cabinet's "decree session" was intended as a protest. The Holy See, whose advisors are long headed and far sighted, reputedly doubts the ultimate wisdom of curbing and driving Italians along the hard road mapped by II Duce. Mussolini. The Premier's lips were observed to curl silently last week when news gatherers asked him for a statement concerning the new decree virtually suppressing all individuality in the Italian press. Well might Signor Mussolini sneer. When...
...producers, and the press solidly favor the citizens' Jury. They feel that by this method only can the clammy fingers of legal censorship be kept from the throat of the drama. With the exception of determined radicals these same forces feel that some honest and clear-headed curb is necessary...
...publicly last week the great party schism which has slowly widened between them since the Boer War. Even at that period Mr. Lloyd George?an irrepressible pro-Boer "was attempting to lead the Liberal party leftward, while the present Earl of Oxford and Asquith* strove?then as now?to curb what he deemed the too great liberality of Liberals. For a time the Asquithians saw their leader supreme, within the party and the Government, as Prime Minister (1908-16). Then Lloyd George wrested the Premiership for himself (1916-22), and the Liberal feud began in earnest. Latterly this once great...