Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture as a whole gains much in the beauty of the language and from the restraint with which the sound effects are handled. As a result one is left with a delightful, if incomplete, picture of the humbler quarters of Paris...
...There's no help for it ! If you want the truth and dare to print it, that's the answer. . . . The barrel shape of the bird's body is reproduced exactly in the barrel shape of the woman of today who neither exercises physically nor exercises the least self-restraint upon her appetite. . . . Have you ever noticed the silly, self-satisfied expression of the penguin? It is almost a leer. That is the crowning point of resemblance. ... I have been speaking of . . . the woman over 25, the breeder of the race. My indictment is against the vast American woman...
...less, as it has told us to drink less? "Eighty percent of our deaths are due to overeating. After the age of 21 a large variety and quantity of food is unnecessary. All those things crowd the stomach and cause poisons. It takes cour age to learn restraint, but all that eating is unnecessary...
...change come over her since Metropolitan days. She is white-haired now. For several years she was round and matronly but she has thinned down again. The voice is small, an instrument to treat carefully. But she wisely chooses only songs which suit it, sings them with dignity and restraint...
...Banding Machine Co. who together make most of the seven billion bands used each year on the country's seven billion cigars. Invoking the mighty aid of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law and the Clayton Act, Messrs. Schlegel and Prochaska allege no less than 20 "overt acts" in restraint of the cigar band trade...