Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then he went on to give them a sober warning: "Your union has given its pledge that during the life of this agreement there will be no stoppage of production...
...befits the beginning of a sequel, the end of the first scene found the protagonist involved in new difficulties. His final speech, a sober fireside chat appealing to the nation on behalf of his Supreme Court plan was in a far different setting from the flourish of trumpets which closed Part I. His supporters rushed to the White House to group themselves around him in a final tableau. Then he disappeared into the wings, proceeded to his dressing room for intermission: Secretaries Hull and Roper, Attorney General Cummings, Senator Hugo LaFayette Black drove with him through slush-filled Washington streets...
...statement was only partially true. Lean, sober-faced Georgia O'Keeffe is far better known to the general public than most of the other artists under the protective wing of her dealer husband, but to Miss O'Keeffe's embarrassment, every time a showing of her paintings is held, it attracts half the amateur theosophists, swamis, faith healers and founders of new cults in Manhattan, anxious to read hidden meanings into her brilliantly colored, smoothly painted studies of skulls, feathers, roses, bones, morning glories and strange black crosses. In the new paintings exhibited last week, Artist...
Navigating was "The Dook," wiry, chaste, non-practicing bridge engineer, whose sober tinkering with the sextant gave their position anywhere from mid-ocean to mid-Australia. Real navigator, says Author Flynn, was Providence. They all took turns at the hand pump, which had to be kept going most of the time. Figuring a couple of months for the trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner...
...only surprised but also rather shocked. Only the most rabid New Deal newspapers openly applauded. The alarm of the independent press that ordinarily supports the Administration was typified by the New York Times, which sternly said: "Cleverness and adroitness in dealing with the Supreme Court are not qualities which sober-minded citizens will approve." Said a Scripps-Howard editorial writer: "Though not as crude as President Grant's coup adding two members to the high bench to win majority approval of his legal tender law, Mr. Roosevelt's proposal, in its political sense, is designed to achieve...