Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last autumn sober, learned Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong of the quarterly Foreign Affairs started in earnest to piece together all the threads of the Czechoslovak crisis for a 15-page article for his magazine. The more Munich was regarded in perspective, however, the larger did it loom as a milestone in history...
Teachers College at Columbia is straying from its task. By the evidence of these recurrent Monday morning sensations, it is more interested in freak publicity than in sober common sense. Teaching is a profoundly important profession and faces a formidable task. The decision at Harvard strengthens it for the struggle. The action of Teachers College at Columbia breaches its defenses. -Boston Evening Globe...
...Lloyd Cassel Douglas' family have a way of blossoming at the age of 50. His father, a worldly, small-town lawyer for 30 years, suddenly turned preacher. He himself, though he wanted to be a doctor, was also a preacher for three sober decades. In the midst of a series of essays on Personality Expansion Through Private Philanthropy, he decided to write a novel. Magnificent Obsession, published (1929) when he was 52, sold about 225,000 copies. Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1932) and Green Light (1935) sold 267,256 copies. Reason: in his novels he kept right on writing...
...England, where a profit is still not without honor, year-end forecasts by bank presidents and industrialists receive-and often merit-sober public consideration. In the U. S. the contrary is so true that last week hardly a bigwig bothered to sound off as 1939 arrived. The few that did-Tom Girdler, Alvan Macauley, J. J. Pelley, Jacob Ruppert-were qualifiedly optimistic. Only Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. pulled out all the stops, issued an "inspirational" statement on practically every phase of U. S. life. Said he, among other things: "Crime must be reduced...
...diary is interesting chiefly for the light it throws on his curious motive for writing it. Despite His aristocratic connections,his wealth, his membership in the Privy Council, his welcome to the most exclusive social, political and intellectual circles, Greville believed himself shallow-minded, frivolous, dissipated. His sober diary was a means to improve his mind, a penance for his sins...