Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That such meetings rarely make exciting news is the publishers' own fault. They carry on their liveliest business behind closed doors, indulge in "off the record" discussions which newspapers obediently refrain from reporting. For public consumption they hand out reports and speeches viewing with alarm familiar bogeys, congratulating themselves on "vigilance," calling for cooperation, closer understanding...
...nominating committee and needing only a member's signature. "Tammany Tactics!" cried pro-Gay brokers. The plebeian New York Evening Journal even mailed out to all Stock Exchange members straw ballots which so alarmed the nominating committee that it dispatched a plea over the ticker requesting members to refrain from any & all unofficial voting. And from his chambers New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora issued a hasty denial that he sought to influence the coming election by an article on the stockmarket which he lately wrote for Collier...
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...dancing, all very folksy, and you can take home anything that strikes your fancy. You will find Belle Livingston just a bit elderly for your tastes, but she is very nice about bringing the young people together. Restrictions are of a naive nature, to quote the program, "Kindly refrain from cracking peanuts during the performance", and "Citizens found carrying perishable merchandise will be stopped at the door". The same program carries the names of the ushering staff...
...refrain from asking what in the American scene is calculated to make fifteen millions of unemployed burst into spontaneous laughter. I refrain, from asking just what chortling in high glee over the delightful ironies of current economic phenomena will do for those fifteen millions. I refrain from asking how a breadline in Union Square or a jovial clash between striking longshoremen and machine-gunning militiamen on San Francisco docks will provide "What America needs." I do not think you should be expected to be able to supply answers to those question, because, after all, you are merely attending a university...