Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the home life of "Babs" Hutton made tabloid headlines last week (see p. 16) the genus U. S. Society Girl made another kind of copy. At University of Chicago, sober, 25-year-old Mary Elaine Ogden, no Social Registerite, submitted a learned master's thesis: The Social Orientation of the Society Girl. Miss Ogden, who lives in Waterbury, Conn., made a laborious investigation of how the Society Girl is educated and with what results. Her report is almost as belittling as the magazine confessions of a deb gone commercial...
...demanded an increase in the salaries of 75% of the church's pastors ("to raise them to the level of bricklayers'"), called for a vote on his plan to give the 6,000 Congregational and Christian churches in the U. S. a delegate to the council. Thereupon sober churchmen resorted to a mediator. They succeeded in suppressing a sharp reply to Mr. Babson, which had been printed for distribution to the delegates, and winning from Mr. Babson a promise that he would "do nothing and say nothing which will disrupt the good-will of this gathering...
...exact age), was the only child of a prosperous, respected leather merchant. In Richmond he is remembered now as an expert player of bandy (a form of hockey), a proficient swimmer in the local holes-which go by such picturesque names as Soda Water, Cherry, Heaven, Hell-and a sober student. From school he went to work as an office boy for American Tobacco Co. at $3 a week, began a standard up-through-the-ranks career-factory manager in Newport News, clerk in Manhattan, a two year stint in Bulgaria buying Turkish leaf tobacco. Thence he returned to Manhattan...
...Century and Broadway are composed of company-owned baggage and public cars coupled with matching all-room sleepers built by Pullman Co. Each has eight all-room Pullmans, accommodations including snug roomettes, single and double bedrooms, compartments, drawing rooms. Each has two diners. The Century's, informal but sober, stick to rust tones and grey. The Broadway's, more splendiferous, have a speak-easy style midsection with side-seat nooks. Each has a bar-lounge, the Century's, mannish, leathery, the Broadway's, like an intimate cocktail room...
...Nonsense!" snapped Jimmy Hines, whose neighbors know him as a sober, honest family man whose only vices are golf, betting on horses and prize fights, giving lavish political parties. "That's ridiculous! Dewey knows better than anyone that that...