Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sober citizens of Chicago sometimes say: "Capone? Yes, it's amazing, isn't it? But you have to hand it to him. Why, he'll probably be mayor of Chicago before he's through. Seriously?and he'd probably be a darn good...
...fact any indication of a bee in the bonnet of an author, are often considered vital in the opinion of modern literary critics. Likewise, enthusiasm and unrestraint are considered the ear marks of powerful literature. Therefore it is with something akin to surprise that one realizes, on finishing this sober volume, its genuine literary excellence...
There is a great deal more to the technique of watching a football game than is popularly supposed. It seems, to most reasonably sober people, that all you have to do is to go to the game and look at the field while the players are engaging in their argument, and the result will be one football game seen. In short watching games is often thought of as something absolute, which you either...
...other places has started to become a bit tiresome. Unfortunately the speakeasy, like the fox at the hunt, doesn't stand a chance, but the plan is a laudable effort to keep alive one of our finest national sports. And in twenty miles there is plenty of time to sober...
...Nightingales is written in a quiet blank verse. As befits the reminiscent, sometimes conversational manner, the language is keyed low, but it has a subtle tension which gradually accumulates its tragic effect. There are few memorable, marmoreal phrases, none that would sound out of place in a sober and serious colloquy. Occasionally this quiet phrasing has a bite in it which louder words somehow lack. Nightingale is telling Malory how he ruined him by not giving him warning to sell stock he knew was going to crash...