Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind at the airport, she came back and found him drunk in Steve's apartment, Ina throws completely over all the opportunities which actresses have heretofore reaped from this situation. Instead of having a cat fight, the two girls somberly and methodically join forces to get the doctor sober enough to operate...
...problem child, this meant a trip to Milwaukee. Leader Lewis was preceded by Ora Gassaway, long his able lieutenant in the United Mine Workers, and John Brophy, executive director of the C. I. O. Miner Gassaway, explaining that "Mr. Lewis thought I might be of some assistance," delivered a sober warning: "Take my advice. You have got to cut out these political and factional fights...
Last week Harvey O'Connor (Mellon's Millions) offered The Guggenheims, a well-documented unraveling of the complex history of the Guggenheim mining fortune that made U. S. novelists' omission seem even more remarkable. Like the Buddenbrooks and Forsytes, the Guggenheim family began with sober business men, many of whose latest descendants forsook business for the arts, involved complicated family relationships, fierce squabbles. But unlike their counterparts in European fiction, the Guggenheims pictured by Harvey O'Connor have operated on a scale calculated to dazzle the most imaginative novelists...
...Angeles, Pastor Carl Allen of Woodcrest Community Methodist Episcopal Church got the approval of his governing board to change the Sabbath services for his flock of 115 to Thursday evening. A confirmed reformer who went on the stump for Upton Sinclair's EPIC last year, long-faced, sober Pastor Allen explained: "The residents of this community are working every possible day to make up for the worry during the Depression. ... I believe they should be free to go to the beach or mountains Sunday without feeling it is wrong. . . . Jesus consistently taught that man was to have preference over...
Many an expansive toper, eager to visit a sick, old, or girl friend, has hired a taxi for an inter-city journey. Sober folk also occasionally take long cab trips. Spinster Catherine Bruen of Brewster, N. Y. has made two round-trip taxi rides to Bellingham, Wash. Homeward-bound from Mexico City last week were 76-year-old Emily Curtis Fisher of Norwood and three other Massachusetts ladies who chartered a sedan and driver from Jack's Taxi Service for the journey. Extraordinary as these treks may seem, they were topped by a trip which last week ended...