Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dance Group recital, Pearl danced in Manhattan nightclubs, where she was a sensation, and as Sal and Dahomey Queen in Showboat. But after eleven months, she quit the show for more study. Since then, she has made concert appearances throughout the U.S. Wrote the New York Times's sober dance critic John Martin: ". . . It would be unfair to classify her merely as an outstanding Negro dancer, for by any standard she is ... outstanding . . . her dances are all fine and authentic in spirit, well composed and danced with great technical skill as well as dramatic power...
...request of British customs officials and advised them not to classify such horrors as art. (He finally reconsidered and the sculptures were let in.) Manson also once noted in a catalogue that Painter Maurice Utrillo was "a confirmed dipsomaniac . . . to his death." Utrillo, on his feet and sober as an avenging angel, sued and won a public apology...
...Much of the propaganda in the contemporary press is simply counter-propaganda, the work of well-meaning men who distort facts because they no longer know how to get a hearing for sober truth...
...rather crude workers' commonwealth, and that pity from America is distasteful. (Americans, it's true, can be pretty foul when they start pitying "foreigners"). But the cold facts remain: goods are short in Britain, life is uncomfortable, and a great deal of work has to be done. The sober job of reconstruction, which a wide-eyed traveller from America cannot but admire longingly, causes a basic paradox in feeling among the people: pride in the toughness and hope for the future contradict a superficial annoyance with "queues" and controls and coupons that is becoming almost psychotic...
...marine in dress blues ushered five sober-looking Japanese into the crowded auditorium of Tokyo's Dai Ichi Building. Their dark, wrinkled civilian suits looked out of place among the sparkling Navy whites, the trim Army sun tans and Marine blues of the U.S. officers, and the summer furs of their ladies. As former staff officers of the Imperial Navy, the Japanese were official witnesses at the disposition of the remains of its fleet-92 vessels of destroyer size and under, which were to be divided among four victor nations. (Heavier ships and submarines have already been scrapped...