Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marked contrast to its supporters, who insist on speaking of trenches, mire, and flags, etc., the opposition to the bill headed by prominent educators has replied in sober language. They view the bill merely as an aspersion on their loyalty and seek, with pathetic eagerness, to discover reasons for the bill's existence lurking somewhere in the background...
...University was having its twenty-fourth birthday. Over the sunbaked quadrangles bustled the black-cloaked figures of the men and women who were about to graduate. Hardy sons and daughters of the soil, brought there by the new wealth, they walked and talked in the manner of sober doers. Some day they would be the teachers, doctors, and ministers of the new state...
...Garbo and Mae West, a picture in which her physical charms are concealed by a mackinaw and a woolen stocking-cap obviously constitutes a daring innovation. The merits of The Wedding Night are more substantial than criticisms which dwell on these superficial factors may lead cinemaddicts to suppose. A sober, admirably realistic investigation of the futility of the back-to-the-soil movement among Manhattan's literati, it is written with honesty and humor, acted with understanding, made exciting by King Vidor's intelligent direction. Good shot: Taka, Tony Barrett's absconding Japanese houseboy, tiptoeing across...
Governor Lippert's speech last week was believed to have been made at the instance of German Minister of Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Appealing to what he called "America's sober business sense," Guest Lippert said that U. S. citizens who boycott German goods do so "from wholly false assumptions." Calling the boycott "contrary to all American interests," he threatened German retaliation against U. S. exports, menacingly concluded: "One can do business only with good friends; with bad friends business is always...
...hard going. The thugs and strong-arm men he could not control gave Skagway such a bad name that the law-&-order element grew restive. Finally, when a green prospector was robbed in Soapy's own saloon, the storm gathered. A meeting of sober citizens was called. When Soapy, singlehanded, went down to remonstrate with them, his speech was cut short by a bullet...