Word: refraining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, to stop the cry, Assistant Prohibition Commissioner Alf Oftedal, acting in the absence of Commissioner James M. Doran, announced that Federal enforcement officers everywhere had been cautioned to refrain from spectacular raids which might in any way be thought politically motivated. This announcement came only a day or two after Nominee Hoover's return to Washington...
...which the great parks of Washington, D. C., are carved. Last week he, director of public parks, started a vigorous campaign against "spooning, necking and petting, noticeably prevalent in darkened automobiles at night in the parks." He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children...
...Scouts, caused a flurry of japes, jibes and ridicule in the nation's press. All Boy Scouts suffered when journalistic smartcrackers suggested ways and means for Cleveland's Boy Scouts to accost women on the street, ask them if they smoke, beg them to refrain...
...Houston police chiefs feared the worst and lectured their men to refrain from oldtime Southern violence. Then, one night last week, seven men hustled the wounded Powell from his hospital bed, took him to a bridge outside the city, tied a rope around his neck, pushed him off. The dark shape at the rope's end did not stop squirming and groaning. So the rope was hauled up and tied shorter, tighter. This time there was a solid jerk and a muffled snap as the body dropped. The dead thing dangled there all night...
...grows restless; he cannot be happy for long unless he has a gun in his hand. He goes back into the racket; and she, loyal but violently protesting, goes with him. And finally . . . no, that would be telling too much. Ladies of the Mob is excellent entertainment, if you refrain from getting analytical about the plot...