Word: hamperful
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...seemed a shame to hamper the abilities of Marie Prevost with a slap-stick story and a crazy continuity. In her own particular field, which is domestic farce, Miss Prevost is without a superior. But what price pug-nose and winsome and sophisticated smile in a steam launch beset by gangsters? Mr. Kenneth Harlan, her out-of-movie husband, saw her through most solicitously. Otherwise she was in very bad company...
...reservations adopted by the Senate ought not to hamper the Court, and they ought not to hamper America. It is to be hoped that other countries will agree to them. They are such as to detract from the encouragement which the United States might have given to other countries in their support of the Court, but they are not such as to make it impossible for other countries to accept...
...defense man for the Tigers will be unable to start tonight. The big man of the Nassau team suffered a severely wrenched ankle when he collided with a Queens College forward in last weeks game. His injury has necessitated switching Captain Wilkinson from wing to defense and will materially hamper the defenders...
Thomas N. Dysart, President of the Association, scored the "blue-sky" laws, which attempt to save the ignorant stock buyer from the clutches of unscrupulous dealers. He said that in actual practice these laws, by complicating sales, hamper the flotation of high-grade stocks...
Said the British Medical Association: "Our position is that, while not in the least desiring to hamper the Bishop of Southwark and those who will meet with him, we think the time has not yet arrived when we can speak authoritatively on behalf of the profession generally on the question of spiritual healing...