Word: stricting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week in Buffalo and Atlantic City, citizens who had been asked to serve without pay as registrars put up a fuss. By strict interpretation, for refusing to serve they could be fined up to $10,000, jailed for five years. Actually, they were unnamed but collectively branded as "unworthy of being Americans," threatened with "exposure through publicity...
Lastly, the conductor owes it to himself, in his programs, to take cognizance of the world around him, and yet maintain a strict artistic integrity. Koussevitzky's inclusion of the London Symphony on a concert program may be reckoned as his tribute to the events which are taking place today. On the other hand, while Mr. Woodworth pays a similar tribute in basing this year's Glee Club program on English and elegaic music, there is something debasing in the fact that German music, which has always figured prominently in Glee Club repertoires, is totally omitted...
Last year, most students would have agreed with Mr. Thomas's foreign policy--no aid to Britain, and a strict neutrality in the European war. This year not many would. The change among adult voters is probably equally as marked. But Mr. Thomas is not trimming his sails to the change of wind. He is sticking to his principles, upholding a stand that would probably get him expelled from Columbia, ostracized from the best society, and punched in the nose in Congress. From Harvard, this candidate for President of the United States deserves a warm welcome...
...strict classifications of his strict and jealous calling Mystifier Dante is both a prestidigitator (he does sleight of hand) and an illusionist (he does tricks which require elaborate props to help the illusion). Pacing his illusions to the brassy blare of carnival music, Mystifier Dante whirled through an inferno of prestidigitatorial feats, transformed a tailor's dummy into a lady, made stooges vanish right & left. Loudly acclaimed was his trick of covering the open ends of a small beer barrel with paper, then distributing a few noggins from the keg among the audience. With dancing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious...
...western border of the Argentine Republic, next to Chile, lies the province of La Rioja (pop. 110,000). Fortnight ago La Rioja's legislature passed a bill setting up a strict press censorship. It banned publication of anything which the chief of provincial police may consider "subversive, seditious, obscene, immoral," or which "lowers, attacks or demerits the majesty of justice." Offending editors, publishers, distributors, even newsboys may be fined or jailed, and the law applies not only to La Rioja's own press, but to papers brought in from outside...