Word: refrains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German officials have testified that no use was to be made of those incendiary devices [in the U. S.] until America entered the War because they did not want to antagonize American public opinion. Yet is it possible to believe the Germans would infect horses and mules and refrain from blowing up munitions plants? No more dastardly thing could be done by any government than spreading germs which not only killed animals but endangered human life as well...
Continuing, Professor Carver stated, "The dangers of repeal are very great. For instance, the wets are found of quoting figures showing an increase in the arrests for drunkenness since 1920. They refrain from saying that 1920 was a prohibition year, that we had had war-time prohibition since 1919, and constitutional prohibition since January...
...course I could not live without TIME, and of course your book reviews are usually done with care, and of course, there is sure to be difference of opinion. But I can not refrain from pointing out to you that your reviewer thinks that Louis Bromfield's "style is thin and without distinction...
Actually the expose was tame, consisted of stolen Fascist papers which, if genuine, prove: 1) that the 107 new Fascist deputies will enter the Reichstag and "insidiously refrain" from blatant, obstructionist tactics, biding their time; 2) that Hitler agents will begin a secret campaign to proselytize the army and state police for Fascism; 3) finally, after much boring from within the German government by legal means, a surething Fascist Putsch will be attempted...
...Manhattan the police department supervises stage presentations, is usually content so long as the actors refrain from outright indecency, has never suppressed a big success from London. In England, official censor of the stage is the Lord Chamberlain, whose critical standards are considerably more sociological than those of the Manhattan constabulary. Last Spring The Green Pastures was denied the right of British production. Reason: since God is impersonated on the stage, the play is sacrilegious (TIME, June 30). Last week the same censor, the Earl of Cromer, announced that The Last Mile, successful death-house melodrama, might not be presented...