Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero Casanova Jones, "a gentleman sober, a gentleman blotto," is a Prohibition agent whose wife runs a speakeasy. Beautiful but thick Annabel Cloy imagines herself a poet, and is overjoyed when Casanova, pretending to be a publisher, says he will print her Poems of Passion, is enraged when she discovers his duplicity. From this out, the plot becomes more and more revue-worthy. In the end Casanova, in a vain attempt to regain Annabel's affections, goes deliberately to jail by selling liquor on the street. His example becomes popular...
Once famed for its nightly swarm of bums staggering from one swinging door to another, Manhattan's Bowery has been a comparatively sober thoroughfare since Prohibition. The bums have been lounging in speakeasies, drugstores, paintshops where "smoke" (colored, usually poisonous, alcohol) could be purchased for 15? the glass, 50? the pint. Last week the Bowery bums were on the street again, pitifully wandering, finding neither swinging doors nor "holes in the wall...
...knowledge of and with acquiescence of their faculty. At Harvard, drinking is by no means considered a crime by the dean's office, and action is never taken unless the drinking leads to something for which the undergraduate would be punished for even if he led a strictly sober life--i.e., bad marks, disrupting influence, acts of extreme physical violence...
When the service was over, Chief Chaplain Yates sped to his office, composed an answer, a rebuke. But as he wrote his ire diminished. He did nothing with what he had written. "I got my sentiments off my chest," he later explained, "and upon more sober reflection did not deem it necessary to add my voice to that of Dr. Pierce other than orally...
...There has developed on the part of students a delightfully informal custom of coming (either sober or intoxicated) uninvited to dances at various chapter houses. This is done so extensively as to tax the capacity of the house, and so make dancing even more like the preliminaries of wrestling than either fashion or comfort dictates. It also happens that when those who desire to enter unbidden are ardent males without escort they at times push in window sashes, glass and all, or break outer doors from their imitation handwrought hinges...