Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...zeal," "courage," "loyalty" or "resourcefulness" of its organization. After the sons and grandsons of the late great Cyrus Hall McCormick began to lavish their energies on personal affairs, Alexander Legge took command. When Mr. Legge died in 1933, right at hand was a faithful first vice president whose sober Scotch virtues had raised him from the stock room-Addis Emmet McKinstry-Last week Mr. McKinstry retired because of ill health, and Harvester's direc-tors-four of whom are McCormicks- again reached down for a first vice president whose qualifications included his Scotch name. Now 65, President Sydney George...
...Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin has increasingly proven that, with the possible exception of Huey P. Long, he is the ablest and most inflammatory rabble-rouser in the U. S., many a sober citizen has wondered how long his thoroughly autocratic Church would permit the radio priest to continue stirring up unchurchly controversy. Their wonder grew as Boston's outspoken old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell repeatedly flayed Father Coughlin for his "demagogic talk," "hysterical harangues," "humbugging," "pure sham'' and Father Coughlin cracked back that for 40 years the Cardinal had been notorious...
...cinema audiences, Go Into Your Dance is not likely to add to Warner Brothers' stature as the boldest experimenters in Hollywood. But. since both are legitimate embellishments for a story about an overconfident song-&-dance man regenerated by the good influence of a partner who keeps him sober and rescues him from the clutch of a gangster's wife (Helen Morgan), Go Into Your Dance is satisfactory entertainment of its school. Likeliest song hit: "About a Quarter to Nine...
...labor organization whose scheme is to start the strikes that it gets paid to settle, is telling the miners that the heads of their union are double-crossing them. All this means to Joe is a chance for the fight which suits his mood but when he wakes up sober the next morning, he finds himself nominal head of a new organization formed to break the old union. The war between the two labor factions results in a lockout and a strike. When the miners and their children start to starve, when their families are being ousted from Coaltown...
Taking courage, she began, with the sober relish of childhood, to empty her raised skirt of rich, crumbling cake. Then she paused, frowning uneasily. Should she have stolen...