Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symphonic introduction before Violinist Busch tucked his instrument under his chin, demonstrated a great talent worthy of great music. Busch, like Brahms, scorns meaningless display. In music alternately heroic and deeply tender, he displayed an immaculate, full-toned technique, an interpretative sense marked by the same marvelous simplicity and restraint that he has succeeded in preserving in his pupil, young Yehudi Menuhin. In Manhattan the Busch name is familiar because of Adolf's brother Fritz (they were the sons of a famed Westphalian violin-maker), who conducted the New York Symphony for a time. In Manhattan next week Violinist...
...Parade is produced, staged, largely written by and for Ed Wynn. It presents the usual Wynnsome monkeyshines, Comedienne Jeanne Au-bert's thin little voice and chipmunk smile, and Cinemactor Lawrence Gray, behaving like a perfect little Hollywood gentleman. Indeed handsome Mr. Gray affords the only note of restraint to the show. Unconsciously he betrays an apprehension that someone in the cast may take advantage of his being a motion picture actor, start making fun of him. Otherwise The Laugh Parade goes its merry way without benefit of libretto or commonsense...
Taxation without representation, notorious as a cause of the war that won America her independence, has led Dartmouth to cast aside usual restraint and to enter the political arena. Recent efforts by the local authorities to tax the fraternities have stirred the undergraduates to active demonstrations of resistance...
Considerable restraint has been exercised in the handling of this theme, one which offered unlimited opportunities for mis-treatment, for hysterical sentimentalizing over a rugged memory. One imagines that if the virile shade of "Rock" could sit in the darkened theatre and watch J. Farrell MacDonald put some of his former tutees through their paces he would not return displeased to wherever football coaches finally retire...
...Restraint of the palate, that is, eating for the mere sustenance of the body and abstaining from intoxicating drinks and drugs such as opium and tobacco...