Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ought to consign jazz to a hotter place than this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...
...Significance. Since a root cause of war from which most surface causes spring is admittedly the pressure of increasing population, it is to the advantage of all nations to ease and curb this pressure wisely, lest haphazard blood-letting continue.* But in Rome, Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni cried last week...
From the ultra-exclusive Carlton Club, London, there emerged one evening last week that arch Tory, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks. Suddenly a strident horn squawked, a raucus brakeband squeaked, a diminutive two-seater taxi clattered up to the curb. "Jixie! Jixie, sir?" cried the driver. Scandalized, the Carlton's imperious doorman motioned this hawker of transportation to move on, summoned the Home Secretary's motor. Frigid with annoyance, Sir William Joynson-Hicks rolled away. At least he appeared frigid. He is popularly supposed to resent the nickname "Jix" applied to him by vulgar plebs. He is alleged...
THERE is a broad highway in the life of every man, a romance-strewn avenue of happiness. But seldom does anyone in this age of mechanics and materialism dare to remain long on his particular highway. It is much safer and far more profitable to stand on the curb and sell motor cars or lead pencils. So only in the evenings by the hearth fire when the world of skyscrapers and tabloid newspapers and directors' meetings is obscured by thick curtains and a desire for rest and refreshment does courage come--vicarious courage, of course--and the world worn modern...
...impossible to check these last minute passes without making the penalty too severe. The new rule was merely made to curtail slightly what we consider to be a slight tendency at present for the passing game to outbalance the running game. The penalty of five yards was the slightest curb that we could impose...