Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon came the first hint that the speech would not be another Nazioration but a sober declaration to the world of official German opinion of all parties. Adolf Hitler went into a huddle with none less than his ancient enemy, onetime Republican Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. There had also been a telegram from Benito Mussolini...
...brothers will testify that "Rufe" has shown those same qualities ever since. Quiet, retiring, the family scholar, he has kept on pulling the stroke oar, a sagely sober counselor and friend to his brothers. He cannot remember off-hand how many utilities companies he has headed. He was economic adviser to the U. S. experts who drafted his brother's "Dawes Plan," assistant to Owen D. Young when Mr. Young was Agent General of Reparations. Sir Josiah Stamp has called him one of the U. S.'s greatest economists. Yet until he took the Chicago Fair...
Hearst has seen the journalism he perfected surpassed in profits even by such sober journalism as that of the New York Times. He has seen that Democracy in politics which he championed, suddenly altered to a dictatorship even more absolute than the one that made him attack Woodrow Wilson. In the internationalism which he has always shunned-to the point of being called pro-German during the War-he now sees his country taking the lead. Five years or so ago it was the fashion to regard Hearst as a "failure" and a "tragic figure"-but though he may need...
...sight of a mouse, pivoting on a hind leg, gyroscopically whirling around 416 times without stopping or reversing might reasonably lead the observer to conclude that he or the mouse was drunk. Yet sober scientists have watched a sober mouse perform this very feat. The whirler was a Japanese waltzing mouse. It whirled because of a physical defect, probably of its inner...
...grip on life", Dr. Rosenbach whose "little gold pencil flipped up" -- all these and a hundred more slide into memory and out again with epigrammatic case. There is nothing new or startling or illuminating; but through all the superficiality there is a sure touch, here flippancy, here sober sentimentality. Mr. Hill, if nothing else, is a good reporter...