Word: restrainment
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...present form "The Man on the Box" is too long: It could have been about two reels shorter without anybody going home in disappointment. Then there is the helicopter invention which seeks to restrain the comedy from becoming entirely a slap-stick affair and succeeds only in worrying the audience all the way through...
...idle to attempt to restrain simply by imposing a fine. That is nothing but a license, and the judge who imposes it is little better than the bootlegger...
That a university or college may not restrain the academic freedom of its teachers, either in outside investigation or in the classroom, was the substance of a report rejected on Saturday by the Association of American Universities. The report, submitted by the American Council on Education, at the closing session of the twenty-seventh annual conference of the Association, was referred back to the individual colleges for action after a spirited debate...
...were not inconsistent. Professor SMITH, with his vigorous advocacy of freedom for the individual would doubtless be urgent in counseling respect for the law that is. What he deplores, as do all who hold precious liberty of initiative, struggle and achievement, is the existence of such laws as restrain the individual without giving commensurate social value. Before legislation in social control is enacted it should be inquired whether moral instruction may not in the long run be more effective in achieving the end sought without peril to character. Moreover, practical achievement must be taken into the reckoning, as well...
...short time ago, an advertisement appeared in The Times and other newspapers stating that Sir Thomas Beecham would not be responsible for his wife's debts. Last week, Lady Beecham, who was former Utica Welles of Newark, N. J., applied unsuccessfully to restrain her husband from so advertising. She admitted that she had taken a lease of No. 15 Grosvenor Square, but was surprised to find that Sir Thomas had also rented a nearby house "for a lady,'' reputed to be Lady Cunard,* former Maude Alice Burke of Manhattan...