Word: repressions
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Those amongst us who have harbored a lingering desire to gambol o'er the greensward unhindered by embarrassing raiment, ever since the appearance of the Merrill's famous treatise, will not have to repress their primordial tendencies much longer. Strong rumor hath it that the Olympian League of West Haverstraw, New York, casting its healthful eyes over our fair land in search of a fertile field, has decided to proselyte the cause of corporate deshabille in these sickly parts. No listless campaign is in store, for the Bernarr MacFaddens up at West Haverstraw have put their undefiled and undraped minds...
...sons and grandsons of the men of the 1850's and of 1906 are today prepared to continue the traditions of their forefathers. By conservative estimate, 100,000 citizens of San Francisco will answer a call to repress subversive and rebellious action of any group whatsoever. . . . No one can get San Francisco "by the throat...
...remarkable have been the educational advances which have come from Andover in the past two decades that I can not repress the feeling that your editor failed to comment upon them only because he was unaware of them. In his mad dash for materialism Dr. Stearns turned over the first million dollars received to the raising of the salaries of the faculty. That was in 1920, Six years later he inaugurated a drive that was to bring in a million and a half. This he devoted to the establishment of ten teaching foundations (your "few teaching foundations"). The value...
Once tutor to Rumania's present King Carol II, foxy old Professor Nicholas Jorga could not repress last week a public crow...
...headlines of the press are subdued. The large dailies repress their screaming type, realizing the meaning of the reports of economic difficulties, political intrigue, and nationalistic outbursts over the world. The tabloids, too, are silent on world affairs but largely through ignorance of the import of these stirrings beneath the diplomatic cloak of the earth. Yet in increasing number and steadily growing discord the thousand dissonant notes seem to be merging, threatening to break out swiftly with the thunderous drum roll...