Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a very earnest word to say to the German student," thundered Chancel lor Hitler's Minister for Education Bernhard Rust last week as that sober, pudgy schoolmaster warned fanatical National Socialist students to cease agitating against certain of their professors and get down to work. "I was greatly surprised to hear a student spokesman say that the student regards it as his duty ... to inspect professors and instructors thoroughly and bring to an end certain of their activities...
...group of contemporary autobiographies has given U. S. readers detailed pictures of the worlds of modern diplomacy, politics, the labor movement, of feminists, spies, social leaders, patronesses of art, expatriate writers, journalists. Last week a blank space in this growing record of current experience was filled in with a sober, conscientious, 678-page study of the world of radical U. S. intellectuals. Almost too long for its burden of events, too short for its burden of ideas, An American Testament pictures an environment that no other autobiographer has described so fully-the shifting, seething little world of impoverished and defiant...
...shook the very foundations of society. Therefore Harvard's problem, at least in part, has had to be one of fitting in with a changing world. Some of these changes are rather amusing. Take the Harvard College Law of 1655, for example: "Every scholler, everywhere shall weare modest and sober habit, without strange, rufflan-like or newfangled fashions; . . . neither shall it be Lawfull for any to weare Long Hair Locks or foretopps nor to use curling, crissing, parting, or powdering their Haire." The College authorities, though they might have been tempted by the crew hair cut to a modern corollary...
...imported Republican stumpster, "didn't think enough of our boys to marry one of them but now she comes to tell us the Constitution is in danger." As the campaign entered its homestretch last week, ruddy, popular, back-slapping Governor Brann was given a good chance to beat sober Senator White. Otherwise everything looked Republican. Overwhelmingly for Landon in all polls and soundings, Maine was generally conceded to be in the GOPocket for November as surely as it had been in every Presidential year but one (1912) since 1856. Hence its choices of a Senator, Governor and three Congressmen...
...toward Communism and that the nation would be better off today if it had had no Government at all since 1932, Alf Landon's First Mate proceeded to continue his discussions of the New Deal in the same tone and temper. To Allentown's sober citizens he boomed: "I am tired of hearing this nonsense about a choice of the American people between liberty and security. . . . The present Administration has been for four years giving lip service to security and welfare, and today no life insurance policy is secure; no savings account is safe...