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...years, tosspots have been excusing their drinking by arguing that alcohol i) gives them "a lift," 2) helps them to do more work, 3) aids digestion, or 4) gives them heart to make a public speech which they would be too scared to make while cold sober. All four are just poor excuses, says the current Journal of the American Medical Association; by & large, alcohol is not a stimulant but a depressant...
...Only Heir." The sober Frankfurter Rundschau listed contradictions in the German and French positions. Then it said: "The statesmen of Europe seem to have reached the end of their wisdom-or of their courage. Don't they see that they cannot continue this policy of thoughtlessness, that it must inevitably end in social chaos, and that the only heir of such a state is Stalin...
Such a bold venture as setting the fleeting moment in its perspective is bound to run afoul of fast changing events on some points. But the broad analysis on which Professor Hughes bases his essay is both provocative and gives a long-range, sober base from which to view the headlines...
...Lehmann fans the performance in Manhattan's Town Hall had the air of a religious rite. They sat devout and mouse-quiet while the singer, dressed in sober black, her chestnut hair caught back in a plain bun, leaned gently against the curve of the piano. Without properties, costume or conspicuous gesture, Soprano Lehmann recreated the aging Viennese beauty with her oldtime fire and finesse...
...many incredulous readers wrote letters to Author Hans Ruesch that he decided to forestall further inquiries with a prefatory note: "I now wish to state beforehand that the social, sexual, and alimentary habits, the religious beliefs, the medical practices, and other modes and manners described in this book . . . are sober anthropological facts, applying chiefly to the Central Eskimos." Even thus warned, readers will shiver at some of the "cold facts" that turn up in Top of the World...