Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twists its tail," cabled United Press last week from London. "Within the limits of freedom of the press prevailing in Britain, where there is no censorship, authorities are trying to modulate the openly anti-Italian tone in some leading newspapers. . . . The Cabinet . . . discussed the . . . situation. . . . Authorities sought tonight to restrain British newspapers and news agencies from publishing information likely to incite further the anger of Premier Benito Mussolini...
...restrain in any way Harvard's music courses is rank calumny upon Hesiod's nine Muses. If the cultural side of education is to be broadened or even its present width maintained, there must be a legitimate shifting of funds to ressurect the "open door" policy for Music...
...after almost every previous White victory in Spain's civil war, seemed to be due to the fact that decisive in taking Málaga fortnight ago were Italian forces. These strangers not only lacked the local enthusiasm for Spanish fratricide but quietly did all they could to restrain the acts of General Queipo de Llano, though no one could restrain the words of Spain's hottest-headed "Radio General." By week's end the Spaniards tried, condemned and actually executed in Málaga numbered only 200, this first batch being mostly officers...
...Aglipay, whose Independent Church now claims 4,000,000 members, is generally credited with about 1,000,000. Two years ago Aglipay did almost as well as Aguinaldo in the Presidential campaign in which Manuel Quezon swamped them both. Before the Eucharistic Congress opened, Aglipay sought an injunction to restrain the Commonwealth from issuing postage stamps commemorating the Congress. Failing, he kept out of sight last week and other Aglipayans did nothing to mar the pious occasion. Absent also, for apparently mixed reasons, was President Quezon. Four years ago Quezon was a Mason, an anti-Catholic. Ailing of tuberculosis...
...racing colors of the duke, behaved as lordly little scamps. One pinched another who started bawling so loudly that he had to be rushed out by an adult. After the benediction, as the Duke & Duchess of Norfolk were returning up the aisle, pew occupants were obliged to restrain another page who persisted in the notion that it would be jolly if he could manage to step on the bride's 15-ft. train of shimmering silver...