Word: soberly
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...When sober, Jimmy is proud of his ability to usher out clients neatly. "I just seem to have a talent for this sort of thing," he says to those who visit his chair on public exhibition outside the State capital at Jackson. "Maybe it's because I'm always polite. The first thing I tell a client to put him at ease is 'Have a seat...
...sober, mild, bespectacled, almost colorless man named Dr. . George William Bachman was last week very busy in the midst of one of the world's most appalling medical problems-that of China...
...Archy" of Adams thinks the boys haven't the money to buy any hard liquor these days, especially on account of the war and the high price. "The war has made them a little more sober minded," he said...
...gifts in many homes, the people sang with fervor, in a peculiar popular ditty, that they just wanted to keep what they had. It was a time when a young Navy wife in Seattle said: "Last Christmas I worried if my husband would come home from the office sober enough to trim the tree. This year I wonder if he'll come home from the Solomons-anytime...
Monty is an old tosspot actor with a crippled daughter (Ida Lupino) whom he dropped on the floor as an infant and who has been vainly trying to get him sober ever since. Daughter finally accepts a suitor and simultaneously persuades her father to attempt a comeback in King Lear. From there on the plot falls to pieces...