Word: refrains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...column 2, of your last issue [TIME, April 16 ], I notice you carefully refrain from any condemnation of the act of the Junior Roosevelt. ... An assault by any other name is still an assault as anyone with a less prominent name would have found. Is the entire Roosevelt family sacrosanct...
...guards over the footlights. Not only in the matter of eats, drinks and be-merries does the American Music Hall surpass the old Morley productions (which had no tables and obliged the patrons to step down the street for their beer), but its actors for the most part refrain from the broad clowning which evoked lowgrade bellows in Hoboken. On 55th Street one is supposed to be amused gently by the spectacle of a play faithfully produced in the manner of 1843, when Phineas Taylor Barnum first presented it, and people wept for the young wife (Dortha Duckworth) when...
...people." If the Dickstein investigation has its way the U. S. Capitol will be turned into a public forum in which Nazis will be pilloried day after day and timid citizens will be led to believe that Chancellor Hitler is about to oust President Roosevelt. The Administration may officially refrain from taking part, but, worse, from the diplomatic standpoint, some of the Administration's best friends are certain to be heard. Raymond Moley was this week publishing in Today a series of articles entitled "Hitlerism Invades America.'' According to Today, Nazi groups have been formed in Chicago...
Evidently certain now that the tide has turned in favor of the deposed prison head. Wilkins does not refrain from openly attacking Hurley's methods. From Hurley's report it is apparent that "Hit and Run" went on the assumption that the first source was the most accurate, for he states that the only necessity of a second witness was to corroborate the statements of the first. On that ground Wilkins strikes his blow. "A fair or helpful investigation would have sought the facts, and not tried to bolster up from biased or unauthoritative sources...
...Ought To Be In Pictures"--Columbia recording. Little Jack Little and orchestra do well with this number. Vocal refrain by Jack Little, just a trifle gushing. Some excellent finger exercises by the pianist which fit beautifully. The backing is another Fox Trot, "Nothing But The Best...