Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people here are feeling great," they chanted. A schoolgirl drum-corps accompanied the song, prompted Mrs. Coolidge to call out: "This is better than being in schoof, isn't it?" Then the crowd sang another song, a parody of the famed Gallagher-Shean melody, ending with the refrain: "Absolutely President Coolidge, South Dakota welcomes you." Pleased, the President asked for a copy of this song, received a fistful as he extended his arm from the observation...
...perhaps, his reserve. His campus hick name, his mannerisms, his students form the mainstay of the biographical portions of the narrative. Nevertheless, in speaking of Eliot, of Wendell of Charles Eliot Norton and of others like these, it was impossible to omit all reference to their educational tenets to refrain from mentioning the main features of their best known theories and methods...
Therefore, please refrain from the slightly tainted title "Newsstand-buyer" ; eschew it; it irks. Let TIME call subscribers Subscribers ; others, Readers...
...will refrain from molesting policemen and, as you grow up to be professors, you will refrain from attacking the courts and the police...
...last item in the account of the trial is the court's advice to the students: "You will refrain from molesting policemen and, as you grow up to be professors, you will refrain from attacking the courts and the police". Who shall forbid stern Justice from her lighter moments? A humorous touch gaily concludes a mass of legality. It makes little difference whether or not the reference is applicable, or even well chosen. One ceases to quibble when one hears the welcome notes of "Case dismissed...