Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worst sense of the word. It is not adult to hold politics in such contempt; it is not adult to appeal through popular names on the letter-head and cheap publicity; it is not adult to start out with a bang and to accomplish nothing. Until the Crusaders sober down there are may better ways to dispose of a dollar, this year of all years. J. B. Jackson...
...Howe, a cultured Canadian gentleman who walks with a painful limp, served the Eagle for 38 years. In 1915 he succeeded the late famed Dr. St. Clair McKelway as editor, made a creditable but unspectacular record. Dr. Howe will continue to write Eagle editorials at his home. Editor Rodgers, sober & industrious, has a good editor's capacity for indignation. He is well known for his books on Walt Whitman, who edited the Eagle...
...income tax during the years 1924-28, had decided he feloniously "attempted to evade & defeat" payment during three of those years. Now he was to be sentenced. As a concession to the solemnity of the occasion he had left off his jewelry, was wearing a comparatively sober pinchback suit of blue. He fondled a bandaged right fore-(trigger)-finger, sucked and sucked on his coughdrop...
...architecture topped with a large, ornate Gothic tower, as if the Woolworth Building had ambled down Broadway and climbed up on the top of St. Paul's Chapel. It is possible that the Yale powers-that-be will find these criticisms merely annoying. An article in the magazine, however, Sober Advice to Freshmen, by one of the editors, Richard S. Childs, should, if they retain any powers of self-criticism, fill them with shame. Mr. Childs has drawn for them a picture of Yale as he sees it, the place where gentlemen are manufactured and scholars are laughed...
...those "regional" universities which over-enthusiastic graduates living in the provinces are said to demand. For one thing, a long series of contests with West Point has created a common interest; and for another, when we entertain them here, they are the best behaved and most decently sober crowd that ever fill the Stadium...