Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, which began to form around George Fox exactly 300 years ago, has done its sober best to take away the occasion for war by refusing to bear arms. "The leveled gun, the battle-brand, we may not take," wrote Quaker Poet John Greenleaf Whittier...
...military commanders. Did that act presage an authoritarian regime? Most observers thought not. Brazil faced a dangerous situation created by its Communists in the first months of its new constitutional freedom, and felt it necessary to use stern measures to meet the threat. But Rio's sober Correio da Manha warned: ". . . Now more than ever, democrats must be vigilant in the face of the intentions and motives of the reactionaries, fascists, integralistas and remnants of [Vargas'] New State...
Last week Bao Dai's carefree days in Hong Kong were at an end. Pretty little "Perfume of the South," his empress, had arrived in town with their five children. In her wake came a delegation of 22 Annamites. What the Annamites told Bao was enough to sober him. To the people of Viet Nam he issued a grave proclamation: "To avoid bloodshed, I renounced the throne of my ancestors. Since you wished to entrust the destiny of the country to new rulers, I decided to withdraw. Now in spite of the dictatorship which forbids freedom of speech...
World Forum. Nobody ever accused Foreign Affairs of being exciting reading; the magazine and its readers are much too serious to worry about boring anybody. A forum for high, grey brows, Foreign Affairs offered "a broad hospitality to divergent ideas." In its sober rag pages, chancellors, premiers and secretaries of state, in & out of office, have debated the issues of their day. France's Premier Poincare, Germany's Chancellor Wilhelm Marx, Czechoslovakia's President Thomas Masaryk discussed war guilt. Colonel E. M. House and Massachusetts' intransigent nationalist Henry Cabot Lodge argued the merits of the League...
...that game!! Mama brought all those sllck get-ups for me, the purple dress with matching glasses; that chartreuse number guaranteed to make sober men think they-ve had enough; that low-cut orange one whose method of support Is still uncertain ... One thing bothers me; I didn't tell mama that these cock-tall cogiomerations are in men's ROOMS. I'm not sure that I understand THAT. I've boned up on Emily Post; but she doesn't mention such places...