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...Manhattan's City Center. Recalled Williams: "She asked me meekly if she had played Blanche better than anyone else had played her. I hope you will forgive me for having answered, 'No, your performance was the worst I have seen.' . . . I never stated publicly, to my sober recollection, that she had ruined my play. What I said was phrased in barroom lingo. I was talking to myself, not to all who would listen, though certainly into my cups." According to Critic Williams, Grand Trouper Bankhead magnificently steered Streetcar back on the track after that...
...when all that has been said, it must be repeated that there are hard facts to be faced by calm and sober people-facts not advanced by political demagogues or agitators...
...rule the United States in the protecting shadow of a loved and trusted symbol. Kings, emperors, and Führers are built up by ambitious power-seekers who could not be elected to office themselves. Our power-seekers try to make our chief executive into a monarch, and our sober constitutional executive branch into a glamorous imperial household, in which they will wield the hidden powers...
Louis L. Miller '56 of Adams B-46 noticed the fire when he saw smoke coming up through his floorboards. He mentioned it to the janitor, who, upon sober reflection, decided to call the fire department. The fire was cornered in a wooden beam between the two floors and while several firemen cut holes in the ceiling of the bottom room, others pried up the floor of the top room. They met in the middle...
Thank God for your two statements: "The path of interposition leads in a direction that sober Southerners faced with aching hearts" and "No doubt, there is a better answer than Civil War II . . ." Perhaps, closer and closer draws the second Fort Sumter and the irresistible force meeting the immovable object. As for myself, a Southerner of 33, my reserve officer's uniform will always be olive drab, and never grey...