Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sports were forbidden and the "blue" laws were strictly enforced. The day was devoted to church activities and sober conversation about the good fortune of the colonists. During the holiday dinner, 'was the custom in many households for the father to read sermons aloud...
...Dodo, being the sober creature that he was and not caring much for turkey anyway, was less interested in the news: "Dear girl, if the Department of Agriculture at Washington wants to experiment with turkeys to get a smaller species -- and even if it will look like a duck, that should not disturb us too much. It will still be turkey...
...Sober Dr. Condon...
...Sober Sweden, skilled in neutrality, last week analyzed the League's sanctions against Italy in a practical light. Finding that Sweden imports from Italy only fruit and wine, the Foreign Affairs Committee wholeheartedly agreed to restrict Italian imports. Exports to Italy, however, were different, including as they do cellulose, timber, iron, steel. Sagely the Committee tabled the subject of restricting Swedish exports to Italy...
...About a week before sailing time my letter from Cardinal Hayes arrived. . . . His Eminence has given me permission to quote the letter. . . . But it is so complimentary, so much more praiseworthy than I deserve, that on sober second judgment I just can't make that letter public. . . . Though a Protestant (my Presbyterianism seems just as much a part of me as my arms or my eyes or my ears), I have tried these 27 years of reporting Catholic news in New York to do it intelligently and sympathetically. I have often wondered if the Shepherd of New York knew...