Word: restraining
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...Freethinkers' suit was brought to restrain St. Paul's Chapel from selling any more cards, to recover, on the ground of fraud, 20 ? paid for two such cards, to assess Trinity Corporation $5,000 punitive damages. Also the Freethinkers sought to have a tablet marking a pew that Washington used removed from the church. Trinity's defense was that, although the prayer was admittedly altered, there was no fraudulent intent since the postcards gave the source of the true text-W. C. Ford's Writings of George Washington...
...they had the misfortune to be Germans, or because they spoke or wrote in a manner to alarm property. And these demands--to their shame let it be said--came most sharply from our own alumni; from men who had benefitted from the very freedom that they sought to restrain...
...grave? Or are those ethereal whispers the gasps of the Paris statesmen, wondrous that the League is doing what it is, amazed that for the first time in history an overwhelming majority of nations has been able to agree on the aggressor, and not only condemn but attempt to restrain its actions...
...Haven, the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, stubborn "Old George" Lansbury, 76, explained last week the aggressive Pacifism which caused him to threaten to resign as Labor Party Leader when the proletarian Socialists of British Labor's Trades Union Congress fortnight ago urged war if necessary to restrain Fascist Italy. Never a militant trade unionist, Mr. Lansbury warned Laborites last week at Dumfries: "War, either by the League against aggressor or by one State against another would leave the world more unsettled than after the last war. That war was waged because we had pledged help to Belgium...
...Champion's corner in Addis Ababa, taking sides at once as a good fight reporter must. "What impresses one particularly is the amazing morale of these classic-featured, bushy-haired black men. . . . So eager to fight are the Ethiopian lions that the Emperor is able only with difficulty to restrain them from attacking the Italians and precipitating the conflict...