Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obviously frightened, not only because he was surrounded by sober-faced grownups, but because the strange equipment fastened to his arm and chest was, he knew, a "lie detector." The examiner asked him a few routine questions, then abruptly...
...brokers and businessmen, however, took the promise of a "breathing spell" with a deal of salt. Some even remarked that, what with the New Deal legislation already enacted, there was precious little room for business to breathe anyway. ''Business and financial judgment may of course be wrong," said the sober Wall Street Journal, "but unmistakably the impression in such quarters was that Mr. Roosevelt favored a breathing spell for industry, not because industry needed it, but because it had become indispensable to Mr. Roosevelt and his Party...
...Sober little knots of people were gathering on the street corners, drifting toward the royal palace. Streamers of crepe, left over from the funeral of King Albert, appeared on all the balconies. Cafè orchestras put away their music, snapped their fiddle cases shut. Hour after hour the bells of Ste. Gudule Cathedral tolled, and the crowds waited patiently by the palace gate. From mouth to mouth stories of the dead Queen began to spread...
Artists in the U. S. will, if necessary, argue all through the night about their work, but they seldom resort to gunfire. In Mexico, art is taken much more seriously. Last week a sober crowd of black-coated schoolteachers filled the auditorium of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City for a conference on Progressive Education. On the platform Painter David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear...
...Synchromist Wright returned to the U. S. Four years of New York nearly killed him. A nervous wreck, he went back to Santa Monica on crutches where he cured himself with the climate and a sober study of Buddhism. For many years director of the Santa Monica Community Theatre and the Los Angeles Art Students' League, he gradually gave up beard, long hair and artistic mannerisms, adopted a hard, exact manner of drawing that showed a strong Oriental influence...