Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bruce of Maryland, Episcopalian, could restrain himself no longer: "I shall say very little, because it would be the easiest thing in the world unduly to dignify the distempered words of the Senator from Alabama. . . . The trouble in your State is that you have not enough Catholics. You seem to think of the Catholic as if he were a rawhead and bloodybones, a kind of ogre, some sort of monster swayed by entirely different feelings, sentiments, and impulses from the rest of us. If you had a few more Catholics in your State you would not indulge in such...
Urge and impulse must he restrain...
...Great Lakes. A learned man with a diplomatic beard, Charles Evans Hughes, sat in Washington last week as Special Master to hear the evidence asked for by the Supreme Court. The first group of states is seeking an injunction against Illinois and the Chicago Sanitary District to restrain them from taking water out of Lake Michigan with their Drainage Canal and sending it down the Mississippi River...
...seems to me that a paper so intimate as yours, speaking to its guests in general society, should restrain itself from giving offense to any one present. It is no answer to say; "Let the injured person retire." You do not profess to be an organ of any particular faith or creed and in truth you do not wish any of your subscribers to retire. . . . HOMER MOONEY...
...court had deferred judgment when Farmer Glatt sued to restrain his pesky neighbors. Before thinking up his fence, Farmer Glatt and family and neighbors practiced marksmanship at an elevated target in the Glatt barnyard but desisted because of the high price of ammunition...