Word: resistive
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Clevelanders could not resist humming to themselves as they listened, in their public auditorium of which they are proud, to a male chorus of 4,000 Germans singing Friedrich Rotbardt. It was good singing. It was also a climax of the 36th national Saengerfest of the North American Saengerbund...
...young French Royalists outside the Paris office of their obstreperous news organ, L'Action Française. Parisians stopped to loiter, to tip one another the wink, to shrug and pass on. They knew that fiery, effervescent Royalist Editor Leon Daudet must be preparing with dramatic Daudeterie to resist arrest. A sentence of five months in jail "for defaming the police" has hung over him these two years; and only a fortnight ago he refused once more to set a time convenient to himself to serve his sentence (TIME, June 13). Therefore last week the authorities announced that they...
...present librarian of Oberlin College; J. T. Henderson, president of Oberlin College; Andrew C. Comings, bookseller; Rev. Henry Tenney of Webster Grove, Mo. They adopted resolutions giving thanks for the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act, called upon the U. S. people to demand stricter enforcement of them, to resist any attempt at their repeal or nullification. This time their proceedings aroused few smiles or sneers...
...Turin, capitalists cut prices generally by 10% to 50%. Restaurant prices dropped 10% in Milan, and other prices in varying proportions. In these cities and in the rest of Northern Italy, where Fascismo is strongest, Capital and Labor dared not resist...
...torn up at least 300 copies of those magazines in which the feminine thigh is perennially displayed in frilly netherthings like the paper lace on a lamb chop. Heedless that he had taken coppers from the purses and bread from the mouths of kiosk women too weak to resist him, the strapping Abbé cried: "If I saw poison being offered to a child, I would seize it and destroy it. These periodicals empoison the soul created by God. They incite to ribaldry and lust...