Word: soberly
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...couple long on charm and short on character. Blazer is Jimmy's old roommate at Yale, and he treats life as an eternal Whiffenpoof Song. For kicks, the three sometimes bandy about "all the graphic, beautiful four-letter words of the Anglo-Saxon," but the revels turn sober when Claire and Jimmy end up in that old Anglo-Saxon place, bedd...
...properly. He failed in politics as well as in business. In his early 405, John Joyce was left with nothing but a pension of ?11 a month. He was the father of a dozen children, but he rarely worked again-though he lived to be 83. Drunk or sober, he affected a monocle, but slipped easily into the language of a stevedore. In one drunken fury, John Joyce almost strangled his long-suffering wife. As Mary Joyce lay dying in her 44th year, he besottedly entered her room and blurted: "If you can't get well...
...President's message hit the Capitol, farm bloc regulars hit the chandeliers, turned sober discussion of issues into noisy attack on Ezra Benson. North Carolina's Harold Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, cried that Eisenhower wanted to give Benson a "blueprint for bankruptcy." Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate committee, said Benson would become a "czar," promptly summoned him to a committee inquisition. Benson arrived at 10 a.m. with a 24-page statement, was badgered after the third sentence. At one point Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington accused Benson of "insincerity...
...advancing the views of Generals Doolittle and Gavin, TIME has accepted at face value the statements of two officers renowned for extreme partisanship on behalf of their own services. There are military men of sound and sober judgment in Washington today who are willing to place national interest ahead of interservice politics. To the extent that the Indians in the Pentagon will let them, they are slowly succeeding. The men I refer to are the chairman and members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Khrushchev's rocket-rattling, is all the way for Dulles. In Bonn, a West German Cabinet minister, while urging more energetic U.S. leadership, added thanks for America's Dulles: "We would rather have a purposeful man than a gambler. The stakes are too great. Dulles is a sober man. He would never go to Munich, as Chamberlain...