Word: refrains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While holding his position, he has a claim to the support of the undergraduates, which should be recognized. The graduates, however much they may fill up the Stadium, are an unorganized body. If they are the ones who are dissatisfied, the press should consider their cause and refrain from idle talk about "dissatisfaction at Harvard...
...compunction about breaking a butterfly upon a wheel. In fact it is the best thing she does, and her exhibitions in this kind are greeted with applause and cries for more. Like other first-rate comedians, however, she cannot always be content to raise a laugh. Though she cannot refrain from tearing her butterflies apart, sometimes she does it with a savagely sentimental reluctance. The stories in her latest collection illustrate both tendencies. Some of them: A horse-faced trained nurse keeps her long upper lip brightly firm while she takes contemptuous kindness as if it were not contempt...
...Reprinted by permission of Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. šRefrain common in cowboy songs. Dogie means a yearling, is pronounced...
BOXFIRE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace (§2.50). Like many another champion of sweetness & light. Authoress Canfield cannot refrain from hitting her strawman adversary below the belt. In Bonfire her enthusiasm leads her into such palpable fouls that even her partisans may well shake their heads, deprecating these groin punches that mar an otherwise pretty exhibition of sparring. Anna Craft was district nurse in a little Vermont community where everyone knew everything about every one else. Anna was a realist but she had too many ideals for her own comfort. Chief ideal was her younger brother Anson, for whom...
...this time Floyd Dell "was, and remained incurably. romantic about women." He had had his first serious love affair before he left Davenport, his first marriage before he left Chicago. Like a theme-song through his reminiscences runs the refrain: "And then I fell in love again." Dell and his inamoratas usually parted friends. ''We both cried a little when we said goodbye. We told each other how happy we had been. Like frightened and lonely children, we kissed and parted." All this gave him something of a reputation among his fellow-bohemians. and even began to scare...