Word: soberer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ready, Gang? Scanning the audience for sober faces, Olson dashes up the aisle, hugs a blushing matron and kisses her on the cheek. (Audience chuckles.) "How are you, darling? Are your knees bothering you? Well," he says, tugging down the hem of her skirt, "they sure are bothering me! [Guffaws.] I'll pick you up later, dear! [Louder guffaws.] Ah, everybody's in a good humor today! Did you have your prune juice this morning? [Laughter.] That's niice! By the way, while you're here in New York, we'll see to it that...
...abroad ranged from dismay to a kind of shocked ribaldry. JACKIE, HOW COULD YOU? headlined Stockholm's Expressen. "Nixon has a Greek running mate," cracked Bob Hope, "and now everyone wants one." Said a former Kennedy aide: "She's gone from Prince Charming to Caliban." In a more sober vein, French Political Commentator André Fontaine wrote in Le Monde: "Jackie, whose staunch courage during John's funeral made such an impression, now chooses to shock by marrying a man who could be her father and whose career contradicts?rather strongly, to say the least?the liberal spirit that animated President...
Never in its 102-year history, had Figaro missed an edition. Proper Parisians would no more think of doing without Figaro at breakfast than croissants. Employee control has not kept it from being the unabashed bastion of the French bourgeoisie; its sober, sensible columns rarely stoop to scandal or crusading...
...responsible for carting drunks to jail-one-third of all arrests." I am wondering what you propose to do with the drunks? Leave them lie to be rolled by other nighttime characters? Leave them lie to become sick? Leave them lie as an unsightly and disgusting sight for sober citizens? I realize that my thinking (based on over twenty years as a Village Justice) is not on all fours with the current thinking on how to cure alcoholism. Perhaps it is a disease but I have "dried out" many an alcoholic with a jail sentence (where alcoholic beverages were denied...
...departure this was for performers. But in the years after Presley, white Rock and Roll became a very restrained affair for the most part. At the time the Beatles really began to make it, the English scene was dominated by a group called the Shadows. The Shadows wore "sober, terribly neat stage dress of gray suits, matching ties and highly polished shoes. They did little dance steps, three one way and three the other. Everything was neat, polished but restained in their appearance as well as their music...