Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wells College (women only) in Aurora, N. Y., alma mater of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, last week inducted as its eighth president one of its own trustees, sober, pudgy William Ernest Weld, 55, Presbyterian minister, authority on India. Since 1929 Dr. Weld had been economics professor and dean of the college of the University of Rochester...
...takes a lot to make a Harvard man weep, drunk or sober, and there were some of each crying when the final whistle blew. We hope that Harlow never leaves Harvard...
Solid and sober as the great Martin Luther looked is U. S. Lutheranism, the intensely individualist faith of many a farmer and small-towner, many a Scandinavian and German-American who still speaks the European tongue of his forebears. Because of the sect's diffuse organization, there is as yet no great single U. S. Lutheran Church whose head might speak with the authority of a Catholic archbishop. Biggest Lutheran body in U. S. is the United Lutheran Church, formed in 1918 of three smaller bodies and today embracing 34 state synods, 4,000 churches...
...father's business, did his first political writing anonymously at the age of 26. Caught up in the great religious revival of the 1740's, he became an ardent Puritan and remained one until his death, living simply, denouncing all vices impartially, demanding a return to the sober ways of the founding fathers. He served as city scavenger and tax collector (acquiring a shortage on his books of ?7,000), married, fathered two children, was widowed and married again at the age of 42. Not until the Sons of Liberty grew strong...
...Howard Hamlet is a delicate, sensitive youth, but with scracely a touch of the meloncholy usually associated with the Dane, Sober, self-contained, and introspective--Howard is all these, but with it all the thread of humor Shakespeare most certainly intended his Prince to have runs throughout this entire production. At times the wit is biting, at times it is gentle, and again there is a touch of rich whole-hearted merry-making. It seems almost as though Mr. Howard had determined to avoid the pit-fall John Gielgud's humorless characterization of Hamlet has apparently fallen into...