Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certainly striven to conduct myself as my mother would wish me to," said William Marshall Boyle to a Senate investigating committee. Many citizens mistakenly assumed that this statement by the chairman of the Democratic National Committee was a piece of pious patter. But Bill Boyle was in sober earnest. His mother is still honored in Kansas City as one of Boss Tom Pendergast's best precinct workers of the 1920s. Friends of the family, discussing Bill Boyle, say somewhat condescendingly that he is a nice, pleasant fellow; Clara, his mother, now retired, was "the politician of the family...
From Berker's twelve-acre factory in Plymouth came 3,000 wool dresses in 24 sizes (the French offer only eight) that had been snatched up by a Printemps buyer, Prince Alexander Galitzine. "The styles are in sober taste," he carefully explained, "but go well with gay French accessories." Bestselling color: post-office red. Bestselling style: red wool bodice with red and black check skirt...
...other's faces, occasionally stopping to shake hands amid exclamations like: "Aren't you Schmidt of the 15th?", "Wasn't I with you at El Alamein?" It was the first reunion of Germany's famed Afrika Korps. At ceremonies in the town cemetery they paid sober honor to their former leader, Field Marshal Rommel, and to their comrades dead in the African campaign. Frau Rommel, who was present, leaned weeping on the arm of her 22-year-old son Manfred. The veterans swore to support the democratic German state, shun party politics, uphold the military virtues...
...father's Manhattan grocery, in 1912 set up a new kind of store based on cash & carry, low profit, big volume, fast turnover. The experiment caught on and before long the Hartfords were adding stores at the rate of three a day (today there are 4,700). A sober, earnest man dedicated to his work, Brother John left the financial part of the business to Brother George, concentrated on policy and expansion, visited as many as 3,000 of his branches a year keeping personal tabs on his 120,000 employees...
...reign of Edward VII, the rakish son of this sober pair, is wittily described in the imaginary diary of a putative secretary to the King-though it passes over in silence what must have been the domestic travails of Edward's good Queen Alexandra. The forthright role of the royal family in two world wars is given due credit, and the constitutional crisis that dethroned Edward VIII gets a judicious, white-gloved examination. Bolitho concludes that, although the tasks of kingship were apparently "intolerable" to Edward, "as heir to the throne he was the noblest and most devoted Prince...