Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case you should choose to publish my questions and your answers, kindly refrain from giving my full name. I don't mind if you just print my initials...
...Radio advertising is mostly contracted for in 13-week lumps, which protects the networks from any really precipitous fall in earnings. But not even the most melancholy stockholder, considering what has happened to advertising in most newspapers and magazines in the last six months, could refrain from concluding that in radio, at least, business is good...
What Senator Barkley, in common with most of the rest of the U. S., had pardonably forgotten was the existence of a Catholic priest who after the 1936 Democratic landslide promised to refrain from "all radio activity in the best interests of all the people": Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. Last week Father Coughlin, back on the air again for the last three months, was scheduled to speak on Sunday afternoon. When he had done so, it was apparent that if the U. S. press and the U. S. Congress had forgotten him, there were plenty of radio...
...meeting of 100 maids and janitors in Cypress Hall, Francis P. Fenton, New England representative of William Green, declared, "we'll make Harvard by law refrain from dealing with the Harvard Employees Representative Association...
...think that it should be held up against the "Young Conservatives" that they do not organize heckler squads to break up Student Union meetings. I remember when Ralph Bates spoke for the Loyalists in Spain, many conservatives were present; but not only did they refrain from hissing, they even did not ask questions that would harass the speakers. They conducted themselves under the ideal that one should attend a lecture to listen, and not to prevent others from enjoying...