Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some outward respectability in a world where they cannot pay their bills or get credit. And although the characters fight, insult each other, get drunk, beat the children, curse the Jews and the neighbors, they also make desperate efforts to get along better, to be patient and keep sober, so that their explosions seem pathetic rather than vicious...
...mark Jubilee-Birthday Week, ordinarily placid, sober Netherlanders went wild in celebration. Throughout the diked-in nation spanking wenches danced in the streets till the small hours, workmen, on paid holiday, swizzled smooth Holland gin, and school children, shipped to Amsterdam to view the parades, were treated with pictures of the Queen and slabs of ice cream. Highspots of the week-long festivities: the largest military review The Netherlands has ever seen, witnessed by the Queen (one of her favorite royal duties) : a commemorative service in Amsterdam's very old Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), where the Queen was crowned...
...bottom wage, $45. By selecting plain, large quarters for rental, by mimeographing catalogues, manuals and books instead of printing them, and in general by going easy on creature comforts, the Project has not only saved money but has avoided artiness so completely that its various units in operation resemble sober workmen's guilds...
...burned again. But you have the responsibility to keep the peace in this neighborhood not only for yourselves but for all. You must protect everyone, including the owner of the plantation here. And I urge you not to permit the establishment of drinking places. If you do not stay sober you will not keep the peace...
...typical Calypsonian inspiration was the visit of Franklin D. Roosevelt to Trinidad. Hammering long words into his melody regardless of accent (a Calypso trait), Atilla the Hun - a sober young father, mostly white, of nine children by his Negro wife - sings on a Decca disc...