Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, the 182,511 readers of the Los Angeles Times were pleased to see that that journal had treated itself to a new and more legible format and type dress. The new face which the Times turned to its public was the result of months of cogitation by sober-sided Publisher Harry Chandler and Gilbert P. Farrar, type consultant for American Type Founders Co. Gone were the old-fashioned banked and pyramided headlines. Gone was the seven-point body type at which faithful Times readers had squinted for 26 years. New heads were short, simple sentences split up into...
...famed film actor with Shakespearean inclinations, fancies her as his ideal Juliet. Vigorously vacationing, but forbidden alcohol, Farraday is kept supplied by Nicky with bay rum ("South American brandy"), which he absorbs out of a hot-water bottle, through a straw. Stimulated, Romeo is madly in love with Juliet. Sober, he has no use for her. Kidnapped by his manager to keep him out of trouble, Romeo is chased across the U. S. by Juliet and Nicky, finally corralled for a radio broadcast which gives fame to Juliet and to Sing Baby Sing a final series of musical numbers...
Such cases of "sex change" fascinate not only tabloid editors but also serious students of the tremendous complexity and almost infinite variations of human hermaphroditism. To sober medical men, it does not seem strange that Nature some times blurs sexual development in men & women. Biologists say there is no such thing as absolute sex. Anatomists recognized a consistent parallelism between the genital structures of male & female. Recent research on such female sex hormones as theelin reveals that the corresponding male hormones are chemically almost identical. Normal men generate traces of female hormones, and vice versa. Thus, being male or female...
...nature gentle, sensitive and without consuming passions, to be betrayed by weakness and evasion into disgraceful acts pregnant with the worst consequences." Eye-fass in Gaza is written in a choppy, experimental fashion which seems designed to take some of the curse of banality off this sober theme. It is divided into 54 episodes, each episode dated, but the dates related in an emotional rather than chronological pattern. Thus the first episode takes place in 1933, the second in 1934, the third in 1933, the fourth in 1902. These backward glances are intended to illuminate, in some consequential happening...
...acre Illinois farm in the summer, in winter taught school. After his conversion he left home from time to time to preach the new gospel. On one of these sallies he heard of a pious and nubile maiden named Sarah Pea, straightway sat down and wrote her a sober proposal of marriage. Like a good girl, Sarah shut her eyes, opened her Bible, stabbed with her finger. On the strength of the text her finger touched, she wrote him an enthusiastically respectful assent. Two weeks later they met, in four months hey were married...