Word: refrains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 was ordered to take off his hat in the building, refrain from smoking, and to keep out of the Sanctum. Ten years later another subdued youth, James Bryant Conant '14, was obeying the same orders. Others such as Walter Lippmann '10 remained in the running only a short time...
...Every member of the American Legion shall refrain from drunkenness, lewdness, or the advocacy of uneconomic or selfish measures...
...refrain from a little perfectly good-humored comment on "Red" Nichols' letter to you (TIME, Sept. 23) entitled "Master's Wages...
...give it away to some 18,000 Brooklinites. By last week at least one reader had looked the gift horse in in the mouth and found it not to his liking. On the Citizen's editorial page appeared this letter from one Peter McMurrer: Will you kindly refrain from having the Citizen deposited at my door and thus save me the necessity of carrying it to the the ash can. ... Following the letter the Citizen printed this note: At our regular rate of $3.50, any disgruntled reader may have his own particular doorknob meticulously ostracized from the Citizen...
Since Britons are now helping Adolf Hitler to break the Treaty of Versailles and burnish Germany's shining armor anew, General Goring cried fervently: "We welcome Great Britain into the community of Germanic Blood!" At the Berlin festival Nazi youths chanted the refrain: "Today we have Germany, tomorrow we will have the world...