Word: restrainingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tories might not at some later date feel themselves forced into the doubtlessly uncomfortable position of having to meet the menace of a Labour will-to-power with a "National" Dictatorship of their own. Would the British love of parliamentarism of which they have talked so much restrain them from this "extraordinary, protective measure," as they might well call...
...wife from whose life the glory has departed clings to her faith in the glamour of actresses-and then meets one. Neatest job of the lot: "Here We Are," a dialog between bride and groom just after the wedding; few experienced husbands or wives will be able to restrain their shouts over this...
...easy to resolve. If actual devaluation comes before Congress can specifically deal with the profit accruing to the Federal Reserve banks, then a law making retroactive the profit on gold might be subject to attack as unconstitutional. A suit might arise on the part of a member bank to restrain a Federal Reserve bank from surrendering to the Treasury the profit on gold...
...voice. Mr. Lardner, like Mr. Ade, was a complete master of one environment, and within his peculiar limitations a deep and a sincere artist. Much nonsense, of course, has been talked about the bitter smile under the painted grin he wore, and many of the critical faculty could never restrain a condescending note when they spoke, in Mr. Mencken's phrase, of the golden heart that beat beneath the motley. So long as our illuminate gently pat the heads of direct, self possessed, and mature artists and curl their lips at homespun, so long must we be judged...
...show, Huey Long went shuffling off to the washroom. There were others there. The raucous Senator was impatient of any delay. Imperiously he ordered a young man to stand aside for the "Kingfish of Louisiana." "Take it easy-take it easy," replied the young man. Unable or unwilling to restrain himself, Senator Long proceeded to commit a gross indignity upon the young man. When he felt what was happening to his leg the young man wheeled around, drove his knuckles with all his might into the offender's face. The Senator staggered back groggily, brought up against the washbasins...