Word: sober
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, to the sober tolling of a deep-toned bell, officials of the New York World's Fair and of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. stuffed...
...half a clowning comic strip, half a romantic daguerreotype, is based on the life of Jesse James. Playwright Ginty, with some support from history, has made James (Dean Jagger) into a droll sort of Jekyll & Hyde who, when not "riding out," is Thomas Howard of St. Joe, Mo., a sober family man with a mousy wife (Dorothy Gish), and a pillar of the local Baptist church...
Just before Georgia's Democrats went to their polls last week to vote in the next-to-last of Franklin Roosevelt's historic Purge primaries, the Purge candidate for Senator, sober-sided U. S. District Attorney Lawrence Sabyllia Camp of Atlanta, received two last-minute encouragements: the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee declared in Washington that there had been nothing improper about the discharge "for political activities" (against Mr. Camp) of Edgar Dunlap as Atlanta counsel for RFC (TIME, Aug. 29); and the fourth man in the race, Lawyer William G. McRae of Atlanta, withdrew, urging his supporters...
...England Primer, one of the earliest and most popular U. S. readers. Most of it was in verse, illustrated by quaint, sober drawings. Colonial moppets were taught the letter O thus...
...fight." Thereupon the delegates began to fight about the definition of a small business man. A resolution to exclude all bankers from the definition was opposed on the ground that "they will have our business pretty soon anyway." Before long, however, the 150 delegates settled down to the sober, if small, business at hand. They listened to anti-New Deal speeches by Vice President Matthew Woll of the A. F. of L., Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Representative Samuel B. Pettengill of Indiana. By week's end they had drawn up a series of resolutions which opposed...