Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike many an image projected by BBC's frankly experimental television system (there are 25,000 British television sets-more than twice as many as in the U.S.), Gillian Webb is pretty as a picture. But it took a deal more than a pretty face to persuade sober BBC to give one of its top television situations to a chit of a girl. To get the job, Gillian had to beat 400 other applicants...
...suicidal mood. Medical Director Dr. Giorgio Lolli skipped preliminaries and applied emergency treatment: relieving the patient's sense of guilt. Said Dr. Lolli, 15 minutes later: "He came in a bum and went out a person. I think he'll come back this afternoon-sober...
...Sole sober note amidst all the Bachannalian preparations was sounded by Louis Croteau, executive secretary of the Watch and Ward Society, from the recesses of the Christian Endeavor Building in downtown Boston...
...bring about the reunion, the Quakers had set up a joint body-the Philadelphia General Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends-and invited Quakers from far & near to attend. The Hicksites' red brick, wide-eaved meetinghouse was filled, to near capacity (1,400) with sober Friends. On its cushioned brown benches they "centered down" before each session in the vibrant silence characteristic of Quaker worship...
...citizenship, and settled in the Territory of Florida. He drank steadily until his death at 46, speculated heavily, sired a number of mulatto Murats, married a great-grandniece of George Washington. Usually embarrassed for funds, he was once arrested on a charge of cattle stealing. But he was also sober citizen enough to be admitted to the Florida bar and to dabble in Florida politics...