Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Laughton gives us Captain Bligh, an iron-willed flend running amuck at sea, where reason is powerless to restrain him. In spite of his round, boyish face, bestial cruelty disguised as lawful discipline seems to be Laughton's forte. This was demonstrated in "Les Miserables" as well as in the present picture. Those thick lips and pug nose of his are becoming the cinematic symbol of brutality...
Eight rice millers from Louisiana asked an injunction to restrain the collection of the 1? a lb. processing tax on rice pending a court decision on their argument that the tax is illegal. Refused an injunction by lower courts in the South, they got a decision from the Supreme Court. By vote of 6-to-3 (Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo dissenting) the Court granted a temporary injunction. Until the legality of the processing tax is decided the rice millers can deposit the tax alleged to be due with a depositary chosen by the Court, get it all back if they...
Accepting this unqualified advice, UGI directors unanimously put their $800,000,000 concern on record as the first holding company to refuse flatly to register. Promptly sought by UGI Lawyer Pepper were injunctions to restrain SEC, the Department of Justice, numerous individuals, including the Philadelphia postmaster, from enforcing the Act against UGI and subsidiaries...
...Freethinkers' suit was brought to restrain St. Paul's Chapel from selling any more cards, to recover, on the ground of fraud, 20 ? paid for two such cards, to assess Trinity Corporation $5,000 punitive damages. Also the Freethinkers sought to have a tablet marking a pew that Washington used removed from the church. Trinity's defense was that, although the prayer was admittedly altered, there was no fraudulent intent since the postcards gave the source of the true text-W. C. Ford's Writings of George Washington...
...they had the misfortune to be Germans, or because they spoke or wrote in a manner to alarm property. And these demands--to their shame let it be said--came most sharply from our own alumni; from men who had benefitted from the very freedom that they sought to restrain...