Word: refrains
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...make-up salon. The picture may also appeal to some children; it tells how a horde of anti-mule, glue-factory-minded grownups are foiled by a pro-mule boy (Lon McCallister) and his girl (June Haver). Adult people and horses may resent the film's hee-hawed refrain: that mules are smarter than either of them...
...same day, the Government went to court and got a temporary restraining order, a necessary preliminary to obtaining an 80-day injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act. The court ordered Lewis to refrain "from continuing the strike now in existence." But early this week the miners were still on strike and John L. was closeted with his lawyers...
...There is a legend in the Talmud which . . . runs like this: that when the Egyptians were drowning in the Red Sea, and Miriam was singing her song of triumph . . . the angels in heaven began to take up the refrain; but God stopped them saying, 'What? My children are drowning and ye would rejoice...
Through the years of his U.S. heyday, Fritz Kuhn's plodding passion for Adolf Hitler was alloyed by a peripatetic passion for women. Four days after his Dachau escape, a 32-year-old waitress popped up with an old refrain. "Fritz is a very affectionate man," blonde Hedwig Munz told newsmen, "and we will be married as soon as all this trouble is straightened out." And Mrs. Kuhn? She was still the same patient Hausfrau who had stood by Kuhn through all his adventures. Said she: "How can she expect to marry my husband when he still is married...
...wife of a mortician. If you could see, for even a week, the intense strain they are under and the comfort they give in their work, you'd refrain from your blasts. How many other men work day and night, seven days a week, going out in all kinds of weather, to ease the despair and pain of the bereaved ? Any financial benefits would never recompense for the inconvenience, hard work, loss of family life, etc., these men incur. . . . A doctor, dentist, or any other professional man may refuse to go when called but the "undertaker" never takes that...