Word: refraining
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...Majesty off the British Throne. The Prime Minister makes an astonishing statement that his previous announcement of the Cabinet's absolute refusal to assist in arranging a morganatic marriage had no reference to the King's ever having been officially advised by the Cabinet to do or refrain from doing anything. "All my conversations with His Majesty," says Mr. Baldwin, "have been strictly personal and informal. . . . These matters were not raised first by the Government but by His Majesty himself in a conversation with me some weeks ago when he first informed me of his intention to marry...
...Napoleon demanded. After two weeks of his last illness, when his anguish had become intense, Napoleon's main thought was to keep his English enemy from, finding out how miserable he was. And as he was virtually breathing his last, the greatest trouble-maker in history could not refrain from sowing a little posthumous dissension: he gave some valuable books to English officers, so that the tactless Lowe, under orders to confiscate all Napoleon's gifts, would get in more trouble trying to take them away...
Before last week's game with Navy, Princeton alumni found in the envelopes that contained their tickets a polite note signed by President Harold W. Dodds, asking them to refrain from drinking in Palmer Stadium. After the game, 7-to-0 for Princeton on a third-quarter, trick-play touchdown by Ken Sandbach, Princeton's impudent, long-nosed, snooping campus police could find only ten empty whiskey bottles, against 500 after the Rutgers game fortnight before...
...debt. It is in fact treating the repay ments as income and spending them. "If the subtraction of recoverable assets from the gross debt is valid," wrote Editor Moley, "then the Treasury's handling of these receipts is, to use a charitable word, unsound. . . . Democratic orators should refrain from leading their listeners to believe that $8,000,000,000 is the total in crease in the national debt...
...notice in an envelope with the football tickets. In such a place one might expect the warning that, "Miss Fontanne is on the stage at the rise of the curtain and the audience is earnestly requested to be seated in time," but not a request that "all persons refrain from the use of alcoholic liquors while attending athletic contests." Still it was an easy way in which to breathe the word around, and when the notices have been thrown away with the envelopes they will no longer be able to haunt either Princeton or her President...