Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Congress of Versailles will be a gathering where the wishes of the people and the sober dictates of justice and reason will alone receive attention. If the ideas and aims of any one person win preponderance at the sessions of the congress, there will be a man in whom the people of America and all the other Allied nations may well put their trust. He is the man who has recognized the necessity of learning the lessons of past congresses. He is the man who has appreciated the value of our college professors in all great crises. He is President...
...from every state, willing, at least in spirit; our efforts to make up for years of unpreparedness have been honest, though sometimes ineffectual; and, taken all in all, our national spirit has been praiseworthy. It has shown vigor and earnestness but unhappily only too often a complete lack of sober thought...
...this world of strife, there was never greater need of sober thought than now. Let us control rather than restrain our wonderful vitality, now bordering closely upon the hysterical, by a serious consideration of things as they are. Let us not turn deaf ears to advisers who know of what they speak. We owe it to our soldiers that they may go forth not less bravely but with open and determined minds, realizing that it is to battle and not to sport they go. This war is not one of headlines and billheads, it is man against man in deadly...
...cast could really take us back to those days, Mr. Faversham has chosen it. Miss Elliot is stupendously stunning, and almost convincing as Lady Algy. We suspect that, being a sport herself, she left Lord A. mainly because he was so refined when drunk, but during his sober moments he was, as played by Mr. Faversham, decidedly a charming and appealing person. These two, despite other names on the program, decidedly carried away the show. When they finally clasped at the last curtain, applause was almost forgotten by the audience for a moment in the breathless savoring of a vicarious...
...spirit in which many students must have taken up their work this year--a spirit of realization that they belonged in College just now because this is the very place where they can make themselves of the most value in the long run. This is a thought calculated to sober the most heedless; and the accompanying reflection that it is for them in their security to do something at least approximating in value what many of their contemporaries are doing at the peril of their lives must provide an unaccustomed spur for the daily task. The pity would...