Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, the most effervescent U.S. city, the carnival sights and sounds bubbled spontaneously, then subsided, then fizzed again. For a while on Monday, torn paper and ticker tape by the ton fluttered from skyscrapers, and the streets turned white. Half a million people clotted Times Square, sober and undemonstrative, waiting for somebody to start the fun. Nobody...
...undertone was sober and reflective. New York's tabloid Daily News caught the feeling: instead of an editorial for V-E day it printed the Te Deum Laudamus. Most of the advertisements in Manhattan's press were expressions of thanksgiving. The churches were crowded early...
Amid this enthusiastic bustle last week was a sober note. Said WPB Chief of Operations Hiland G. Batcheller: the switch to a one-front war should involve little loss in employment or income. But after V-J day business will be on its own, and this is when the real test will come...
...soap-box exhortations fashionable a decade ago. There were elaborate, anything-but-immaculate conceptions which for untutored eyes might just as well have hung upside down. There were shaky, stuttering labors-in-oil by artists known chiefly to their immediate families, friends and critic-sponsors. There were also sober, estimable paintings by artists like Alexander Brook, John Carroll, Walt Kuhn, Raphael Soyer. Sample critics and choices...
Girl Scouts & Young Republicans. The Russian people struck Bill White as being very like Americans. In endless tours of factories (everything in Russia from a farm to a hospital seemed to be called a factory) he saw young, earnest, sober-minded executives, who looked exactly like the businessmen at a U.S. junior chamber of commerce luncheon. They were Communists just as their American counterparts were Republicans, "because it was the party of respectability and its hallmark would be helpful to a young man anxious to get on in the world." The Komsomol, or League of Young Communists, seemed to White...