Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maitre" himself, that is, the president of the great steel corporation, is skillfully played by Henri Rollan, who wisely uses all the restraint required by the role of a dignified, devoted, long-suffering man. He is paired with Gaby Morlay, who is just as deftly quiet in her portrayal of the proud noblewoman who frankly marries out of spite, and then doesn't know how to break the news when she falls in love with her husband. These two go far to make the story plausible. More in keeping with the excesses of the plot are Jacques Dumesnil, who simpers...
...agreed sum into it, then return and innocently walk off with the umbrella. In eight years, on a union salary of $35 per week, he saved $350,000. "It was with great thrift," he has explained. As early as 1915 "Umbrella Mike" was indicted for a racketeering conspiracy in restraint of trade, jailed after a five-year legal battle. One item of evidence showed that he had extorted $20,000 from Chicago Telephone Co. for permission to erect a building without strikes. After two months of his one-year sentence President Wilson pardoned him, despite a U. S. Circuit Court...
...More than cheap power is at stake; a new element of democratic decency can be introduced into public life. The sovereign government is under obligation not to make capricious or arbitrary use of its power but to act with restraint and fairness and without a spirit of retaliation. But what if the power companies reject such an approach? . . . Public authorities should not give up any powers of compulsion until a reasonable process of solution has been worked out and well established. . . . But the utilities have a right to know what it is that is asked of them and what...
...neither oil prospectors nor anyone else traveled freely among the rifle-bearing Afghan hillmen. The potentiality of Afghan oil fields is something presumably best known to Inland. In Manhattan last week Seaboard's President John Meston Lovejoy, who is also president of Inland Exploration Co., remarked with restraint that the concession was an opportunity to spend a lot of money. Said cautious President Lovejoy: "This is a concession for exploration as well as for exploitation. . . . No oil testings have ever been made. ... If the agreement goes through it will take years to lay out the territory and test...
...Britons stopped making any further reference to it. He then switched into a furious castigation of Soviet Russia and made this glancing reference to birth control: "Many regard the rich results of Science as being all-sufficing. This has brought about a loosening of the ties of marriage and restraint upon the impulses of sex. Well may we ask-'Whither is this drift carrying us?' " As the Archbishop of Canterbury was by this time getting definitely a "bad press," the sagacious Primate of All England gave a most sumptuous feast to British journalists in his Lambeth Palace, regaling...