Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taber and Knutson had been merely obstructionists when their party was in the minority. Would responsibility sober them up? These were things for Joe Martin to worry about. But Joe does not worry much. He knows how to handle his colleagues. He also knows that he will have some excellent committee chairmen (Jesse Wolcott of Michigan, Charles Eaton of New Jersey, et a/.) and that he will have some good new blood in the House. One of the freshmen, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge, put the problem of the Republicans...
Last week, for the third time in fourscore years, the Star got a new editor. For the first time, he was not a Noyes-but sober, cautious Benjamin Mosby McKelway, 51, was unmistakably one of Noyes's boys...
This description of U.S. state mental hospitals last week came from no muckraker but from a speaker before the sober, conservative National Committee for Mental Hygiene. Mental health officials, gathered in Manhattan at the committee's annual meeting, agreed with this indictment by Mrs. Edith M. Stern, a writer on psychiatric problems. Cried Maryland's Mental Hygiene Commissioner George...
...tone, in large measure, remained Elizabethan. Costumes were sober; the dim-lighted sets were mainly just drapes of black and grey, so readily shifted for change of scene that the play flowed pauselessly as fate itself to its blood-slippery conclusion. The cast, down to the minor roles, played with assurance and conviction. Head & shoulders above this excellent support stood the Hamlet of Louis-Jean Barrault, onetime pantomimist and cinemactor, and a brilliant renegade from the Comedie Française. Barrault's Hamlet was real, immediate, full-bodied, and above all intelligent...
There were no riots last night, but one thousand dead-sober sons of Harvard did everything else the occasion called for, as they invoked the aid of the football gods for a win over Holy Cross in the season's second major football rally last night...