Word: refrains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moreau is engaged in trying, with partial success, to create humans. His more satisfactory experiments he uses as house servants; the others he allows to roam the forests of his island, so long as they refrain from eating one another or gnawing the bark off trees. When a young castaway (Richard Arlen) turns up at the island, Dr. Moreau regards him as a suitable mate for his artfully constructed "panther woman." The romance progresses nicely until the castaway notices that the panther woman's finger nails are claws. Finally the castaway's fiancée comes to rescue...
...Paris all customs unions are viewed with alarm because the French Government is strenuously exerting itself to keep Germany and Austria from forming one and wants no bad examples set elsewhere. "Let us hope and trust," frowned Parisian Pundit Andre Geraud ("Pertinax"), "that Mussolini and his councillors will refrain from posing a problem so dangerous to the peace of the Adriatic and to Europe...
...this particular taken a decided turn for the worse during the depression. To the company of the old lady with the remarkably heavy bundle have joined themselves amateurs of all descriptions, young and old, tough and tender, sober and heary, but with the one symbol of their Freemasonry, the refrain "Could jalemme have a dime for a cuppa coffee Mister?" which of these poor wretches are deserving are merely down on their luck, and which are moochers, beggars pure and simple, the casual passerby can hardly determine. If that casual passerby have any of the elements of humanity...
...through the campaign there has seemed to be a controlling spirit of courtesy in all the newspapers of the country, insofar as I could see them, to refrain from any reference to Governor Roosevelt's lameness, and the word which you have used-"hobbled"-will give pain to Governor Roosevelt and all his friends. I cannot help feeling sorry to read a news statement in this form...
AMID THESE STORMS-Winston S. Churchill-Scribner ($3.50). Though Winston Churchill grew up physically long ago (he is 58), he is still and perennially the bad boy of British politics. Bubbling with super-adolescent energy and enthusiasms, hyper-adolescent ideas, unlike the typical Britisher he cannot refrain from sounding off on any subject that catches his briskly roving eye. Always refreshing (if you like enthusiasm per se), often more humorous than he intends, he apologizes for this collection of outbursts by saying that in an old world one must still amuse oneself like a child. Every Englishman is familiar with...