Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sober Dallas News suggested cautiously that Negroes might perhaps be given "their fair and just political and economic rights along with segregation. . . . The Court's ruling will have its profound effect. We might as well accept it as a warning...
...laid out, Washingtonians were united against the common foe. "Disunity!" screamed the D.C. Communist Party. The Southeast Council of Churches considered charges that Mayor Bilbo is "unpatriotic and un-Christian," solemnly resolved that he be removed. "Vicious," said the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, "un-American." The sober Washington Post editorialized: "Bilbo Runs Amok." The Scripps-Howard Daily News fumed: "This socially benighted man . . . throw...
...From its first moment, it is arresting. For the preacher is no Uncle Tom. He does not talk minstrel-show dialect or advise his flock that, for those who bear their afflictions meekly, there will be watermelon by & by, or the Hall Johnson Choir in the sky. He talks sober, unrhetorical English, and before long he is reading aloud (from Mein Kampf) some of Hitler's opinions about those "born half-apes." While he reads, the camera moves among his listeners, quietly contradicting Hitler by the most powerful shots in the film-the intent faces of proud, enduring, mature...
...should be required reading in every deanery, every parsonage, and every Legislature, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line." Consequently the suppression of the book in Boston, the one-time center of Abolitionist principles, appears utterly incongruous. The book is the opposite of sensational. It is a sober sociological study by a woman who has lived nearly all her life in the deep South, and who brings to the examination of race relationships no exaggerated or violent denunciation, but qualities of deep understanding and tragic pity...
...Sober speakers at last week's National Shoe Retailers Association's annual meeting in Manhattan gave the reason for the new crime wave. Said Tanners' Council Vice President Merrill A. Watson: "World leather supplies . . . can be covered by one word. That word is 'scarce.' " The facts about that scarcity...