Word: restraints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even after the news was out Beaverbrook insisted on "restraint" from his own editors and cartoonists. His explanation when asked about this was: "I am a royalist." He is also a Presbyterian (the Bible is read to him by .a subordinate each evening). But above all he is an Empire...
Violinist Virovai, whose playing is remarkable not only for speed, accuracy and beautiful tone, but for masterly restraint and timing, was born in 1921 in the little Yugoslav mountain resort of Daruvar. When he was six his family moved to Belgrade so that he could study the violin with a local teacher. Four years later he moved on to Budapest...
...remedy, he says, is not through excessive "legalistic restraint with penalties" if the freedom of the individual is to be maintained, but by "the maintenance of self-government through the maintenance of values enforced through voluntary social approval...
...military force," barked General von Epp. "When Hitler told Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, and again at Godesberg, that the colonial question remained a problem, he officially opened the negotiations. Our claim is to all our former colonies. Whether, when the actual moment for bargaining for them comes, we shall show restraint is for the future to decide. If we do, then we shall demand compensation for whatever we do not claim...
Just such a pictures has Clifford Odets painted. "Golden Boy" is not a pleasant evening's entertainment; it is better than that. It is a superbly balanced piece of work. It is acted with appreciation and restraint by the entire cast. It is pithy, at times harrowing, and always interesting...