Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Where's Daddy?" they shouted, then, sober-eyed, "Why are you wearing black, Mother? What makes you cry so hard...
...about to sail on the Aquitania for an international gathering. In a split second she appears in his cabin in her underclothes, gives him a mighty hug while press photographers do the rest. All this feverish by-play ends in a curious reconciliation scene. Eadie gets drunk. To sober her up, young T. R. Paige pops her under a shower, proposes for the second time...
...years ago a Seattle salvage company proposed to raise the wreck and recover its treasure, had little difficulty selling $500,000 of stock in the enterprise. It was to be no will-o'-the-wisp chase, but a sober, scientific business undertaking...
...Norristown, Pa., Mrs. Edward H. Le Boutillier told a court that her husband pursued a daily schedule of drinking. Starting at 6 a. m., he was drunk by midmorning, sober by lunch. The afternoon found him in his cups but by 6 p. m. he was back where he started. After dinner he began again, reaching a peak around bedtime. To a hospital for a year the judge sent Edward H. Le Boutillier...
...class began to appear. Under the Mayor's auspices, a "citizens' committee" of 500 was organized to check famine and disorder. The newspapers, frightened by bomb threats, took an unequivocal stand. "The radicals," editorialized the Chronicle, "have seized control by intimidation. What they want is revolution. . . . Are the sane, sober workingmen of San Francisco to permit these Communists to use them for their purpose of wreckage, a wreckage bound to carry the union down with...