Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jazz interests Scholar Sargeant but does not fascinate him. He finds it "an art without positive moral values, an art that evades those attitudes of restraint and intellectual poise upon which complex civilizations are built. At best it offers civilized man only a temporary escape into drunken self-hypnotism." Like the American skyscraper, movie plot and funny paper, Jazz has no conclusion. But, admits Author Sargeant, it has vitality and, maybe, a future...
Loewe & Co., because of the boycott, charged 240 Danbury hatters with conspiracy in restraint of interstate trade under the Sherman Antitrust Act, won a verdict for triple damages. Lest the defendant hatters lose their homes and savings, A. F. of L.'s Sam Gompers asked all Federationists to chip in an hour's pay, and eventually settled the judgment for $251,000 including damages...
...pursuit of its objectives, the first of which will be restraint upon further increase, of the national debt, the Committee plans to use newspapers, radio, newsreels, and lectures...
...They drive more rapidly and travel farther than older drivers," says DeSilva about youth. "Having less experience and less responsibilities (there are fewer owners and less married men in the younger age group) they undoubtedly drive with less restraint and are more interested in getting places in a hurry," he continues...
...spite of numerous lighting effects, but Burt Kelsey's grouping of the actors on various stage levels to display the proper subordination of characters is excellent. A blatant loudspeaker, an overdose of fire and brimstone, insecure craftsmanship in the delivery of certain vital lines, and a lack of restraint in the comedy detract somewhat from the performances of Glenn Wilson as Faust and Basil Burwell as Mephistopheles, but Faust's struggle between his better self and his lost for power is nonetheless arresting...