Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facilitate the recording by R.C.A. Victor, the audience was requested to refrain from applause between numbers. Restraint was broken at the close by over five minutes clapping, as Woodworth shook hands with Koussevitzky. Only one chair was overturned; only one book had fallen to the floor. The records will not be ready for sale for at least three months...
...cannot refrain from joining the crowd of eternal mudslingers at Germany, you should at least keep decent and take back your statement about the "appalling number of bastards" conceived in Hitler Camps (TIME, Feb. 8). Can you prove it? Then why the slander? If you had lived in Germany in the "Before-Hitler-Time," you would look at the Führer's achievement with different eyes-but you seem to think that 66,000,000 Germans are just fools...
...dossier on the subject. Good shot: Fluther's technique in a barroom fight- fantastically complicated footwork, accompanied by no blows. A Doctor's Diary (Paramount) is a savagely derisive expose of conventional medical ethics, fairly screaming the sort of hospital anecdotes which upright members of the profession refrain even "from whispering. Its casting is as daring as its contention. Producer B. P. Schulberg has staffed it almost entirely with unknown players. John Trent, a self-assured young man of likely starring calibre, was until recently piloting a TWA transport. Ruth Coleman is an erstwhile commercial artist model. Helen...
...Hernan Laborde, massed his Reds in Mexico City's St. Domingo Square and roared: "Down with Trotsky who is living in the home of the Capitalist Painter Rivera! . . . We demand the expulsion of Trotsky from Mexico. . . . Trotsky, the rotten bourgeois-stalking horse, has already broken his promise to refrain from politics in Mexico and has insulted the Soviet Government...
...ever been blessed throughout life as I have been.' I have repeated these words for myself, 'No man has ever been blessed throughout life as I have been.' And of all His blessings, this one stands high, that you are able to take up the refrain into your own life. With the confidence of the people of this diocese, which will, I know, ripen into affection, you will go in and out among them carrying the gospel of a joyful, grateful service, singing to yourself, 'Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within...