Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the Senate at the noontime opening of a session. He gives a backslap here, a glad hand there, pausing to drop a witticism at this Senator's desk, an encouraging word of counsel at another's, to confer now gravely, now casually -dynamic, carefree, yet occasionally sober under the solemn responsibilities of statesmanship. Here, it seems from the gallery, is the very picture of a wise and charming legislator, beloved of his colleagues, happily resuming his daily burden...
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, 6 ft. 4 in. tall and 53 years old, is very French indeed: not the explosive, whiskery, gesturing type of Frenchman, but the sober, hard-working kind to whom God is one of many inescapable facts. In the dreary industrial city of Lille in Flanders, close to Belgium, Charles de Gaulle was born Nov. 22, 1890. The De Gaulles were petty aristocracy, provincial squires, not well off. Papa taught philosophy. For hulking Charles, the family determined on St. Cyr, the West Point of France. Charles entered low, graduated high...
...must still have been on his mind, for according to the model, he would paint pants on her one day, paint them off the next. He gave his nude a musing, pastoral face and the rosy-brown, gently diffused flesh of warm-weather drowsiness. Against the barn's sober timbers, earth floor and haymow, she has the calm glow of a lamp in daylight...
Robert Ramspeck is a sober, studious Congressman with an affable air which hides a bulldog's tenacity. As chairman of the powerful House Civil Service Committee, he recently took a look at a bill which another smiling, stubborn man, General Henry Harley Arnold, has been trying to shove through Congress. What he saw made Bob Ramspeck clamp his teeth on his pipe stem...
...debunking job, The Way Our People Lived includes eleven sober chapters crawl ing with facts (most of them curious) about the day-to-day living habits, laws and institutions of nine American genera tions. Typical chapters: A Day in a Vir ginia Planter's Life; A Puritan Village in 1680; New York in 1008. Some odd ments...