Word: refraining
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...were slim. ¶ Jack McVea's raucous tune Open the Door, Richard! (TIME, Feb. 10) was running through the country's veins like a low-grade fever. In San Antonio, a man named Richard was kept up all night by people ringing the doorbell and chanting the refrain. And in Manhattan old Jake Ruppert's brewery made it the slogan of an advertising campaign...
Caniff seldom heard more than querulous peeps out of Colonel Bertie McCormick's Chicago end of the Tribune-Daily News axis. Sample: early in 1941 he was informed that Colonel McCormick "objects to Defense Bond stamps being used in the comics, so will you please refrain from using them." And once McCormick and Patterson, reading Terry together, came to a sequence where the lissome Burma was carrying on with a German named Keel. "Why," said the Colonel, turning to his cousin in alarm: "Burma is living with that...
Murray was sure that his biggest unions could get contracts without strikes-"always, always without strikes." The words recurred like a refrain in everything he said. What went for the Steelworkers would go for the electrical workers and would have to go for the auto workers, too. As of last week, the outlook for high production in 1947 was good...
Wherever he alights on his speaking tour around the country, a long red carpet is rolled out for him. When he finishes, the audience sings the new national anthem Indonesia Raja. The tune is almost a direct steal from Boola, Boola; the refrain starts...
...pressroom last week, a telling diplomatic exchange took place. On their bulletin board, correspondents discovered a notice charging that some members of the press posed as delegates in order to get comfortable rides home in delegation cars. The offenders were requested to refrain from such tactics. Within ten minutes a retaliatory notice appeared: "It has come to the attention of the U.N. Correspondents Association that some delegates have been posing as reporters in order to ascertain what is going on in some committees. This practice must stop...