Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Loafers in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza, idly feeding crumbs to the pigeons, suddenly found three circus elephants in their midst. With equal suddenness, in the midst of the elephants, appeared sober, chunky Roger Dearborn Lapham, the onetime shipowner who is now San Francisco's bustling new mayor. Mounting a soapbox, able Mayor Lapham gave the pigeon feeders an impromptu 15-minute lecture on the merits of unifying the city's traction system. Pointing to the elephants, he cried: "There stands an early outmoded form of transportation the likes of which we intend...
...targets. Where they had once been able to put 600 fighters into the air to meet any heavy attack, their limit now appeared to be around 400. But the flyers who went up were the Luftwaffe's best; they fought with a skill and bitterness that earned them sober professional praise from their foes...
...picture's theme is the rise of Na tional Socialism from the gutter to the June 1934 Blood Purge. The film is a sober attempt to screen history. It is forceful as propaganda, sharp as cartooning, interesting as journalism, sometimes exciting as cinema. But it is inadequate to its subject. In part this failure is due to the attempt to pack 16 of the most crowded, crucial, sinister years of modern German history into 101 minutes of lively cinema. In part it is due to the fact that Nazi characters and motives are simplified to the point of absurdity...
...Sober Solon. Top Social Crediter for years was zealous, Bible-quoting William C. Aberhart. He rose to power in Alberta in 1935 by dazzling voters with promises (which he was unable to fulfill) of $25 a month apiece. Bill Aberhart died last year, but his Party still rules Alberta, has ten members in Ottawa's House of Commons. Out of these remnants, Solon Low must try to build a national political force...
...Buonaparte as from that of ancient governments." After Waterloo, Hazlitt sank into unkempt despair. While Poet Laureate Southey and Poet Laureate-to-be Wordsworth celebrated Britain's victory with "boiled plum puddings" eaten al fresco by the light of blazing tar barrels, Hazlitt "walked about, unwashed, unshaved, hardly sober by day, and always intoxicated by night...