Word: soberest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were assembled, in monstrous taste, old tapestries, carved Italian statues of the 15th Century, paintings of madonnas, and some fourscore of Bavaria's wealthiest and most titled citizenry. Heading the guest list was one of the Kaiser's grandsons, a little ill at ease and easily the soberest guest in the place, and his pretty, dark-eyed sister, a refugee from the German Eastern territories. As the host eyed the dignitaries with evident satisfaction, a friend explained to me succinctly: "He has the food, they have the titles." Around a statue of the Archangel Michael, grass skirts...
...world got the shock it had been waiting for. But to the U.S. the shock was cushioned by the dead of night; the news came in the hours when the soberest of men are drunken with sleep. Perhaps never was such big news heard by so few. When the nation woke up, the great fact was hours...
...Certainly it had not been geared to industrial strategy: the Army & Navy had started by ordering everything they could think of, including men, and the schedules had not yet been trimmed to fit the realities of material and manpower. In the President's absence, some of his soberest advisers had grown desperate: they wanted to lay the whole picture before him, to point to the terrible urgency for military and production strategy and a swift program of manpower control. Instead the President had come back to lay his picture before them. To these men, the President's optimism...
...faces and flickering bodies trailing lingerie like the draperies of an El Greco saint, Carroll's women sell like hotcakes at $1,000 up. (An Italian laborer once slashed one from its frame and took it home to be "his woman.") His pictures are also collected by the soberest U.S. museums as examples of the finest contemporary U.S. art. They resemble (in an etherealized form) his pert, 100-lb., Ohio-born wife ("Pinky"), who has served as his favorite model ever since their marriage...
...their time visiting museums, churches, antiquarian stores, local bars. Though forbidden to go beyond the city limits, Timesman Herbert Matthews and A.P.'s Dick Massock sometimes bicycled as far as 15 miles outside town. "In Italy," says Matthews, "no laws are obeyed, least of all by the Italians." Soberest of the lot, Correspondent Matthews read Gibbons Decline & Fall, worked on a book on Italian Fascism...