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...Every member of the American Legion shall refrain from drunkenness, lewdness, or the advocacy of uneconomic or selfish measures...
...refrain from a little perfectly good-humored comment on "Red" Nichols' letter to you (TIME, Sept. 23) entitled "Master's Wages...
...give it away to some 18,000 Brooklinites. By last week at least one reader had looked the gift horse in in the mouth and found it not to his liking. On the Citizen's editorial page appeared this letter from one Peter McMurrer: Will you kindly refrain from having the Citizen deposited at my door and thus save me the necessity of carrying it to the the ash can. ... Following the letter the Citizen printed this note: At our regular rate of $3.50, any disgruntled reader may have his own particular doorknob meticulously ostracized from the Citizen...
Since Britons are now helping Adolf Hitler to break the Treaty of Versailles and burnish Germany's shining armor anew, General Goring cried fervently: "We welcome Great Britain into the community of Germanic Blood!" At the Berlin festival Nazi youths chanted the refrain: "Today we have Germany, tomorrow we will have the world...
...will were rigid provisions that no popular exposition of his ideas should preface his books: "My sole interest is the quest for social uniformities, social laws. I am here reporting on the results of my quest, since I hold that . . . such a report can do no harm. I should refrain from doing so if I could reasonably imagine that these volumes w:ere to be at all generally read...