Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facilitate the recording by R.C.A. Victor, the audience was requested to refrain from applause between numbers. Restraint was broken at the close by over five minutes clapping, as Woodworth shook hands with Koussevitzky. Only one chair was overturned; only one book had fallen to the floor. The records will not be ready for sale for at least three months...
...failed to check runaway inflation. But whether or not the United States is standing on the brink of a precipice, any control, except for direct monetary efforts, "must mean a personal government of relatively unrestrained power". Backed by the dictation of closely knit labor armies and freed from restraint by a judiciary stripped of its independence, the office of President might be an enviable one in a few years --and one where angels would fear...
...Calloway, the hi-de-ho man who brought Minnie the Moocher everlasting fame, occupies the stage of the Boston Theater this week along wit a newspaper film, "Woman Wise". Calloway sings and struts to a number of Harlem favorites with a little more restraint than usual, introduces six lindy hoppers, who add considerable zest to the program, and presents a home-made band which nearly steals the show. This group, led by a colored gentleman who is even lazier than Steppin Fetchil, swings high and swings low on a washboard, a couple of toy trumpets, a guitar, a decrepit piano...
Posted last night in the Union was a petition requesting that a Course in Marriage, "conducted with dignity and restraint and observing in the instruction the qualities of decency, tolerance and faith necessary to a happy union," be made part of the University's curriculum...
...good sense to avoid deliberate burlesquing, and have let the play burlesque itself. The contrast of the serious treatment (at least fairly serious treatment) with the ludicrous pathos of the melodrama, is undoubtedly the funniest effect that could be obtained from the material. Much of the credit for this restraint is due to director Howard Mumford Jones, the well-known novel man. He has, however, let none of the grandiloquence escape...