Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...church meeting last week. The antics must cease. Indignant, members of the Bible class, huddled together like college students yelling for their team, prayed that the Holy Spirit strike Deacon John Hurst, chairman of the Evangelistic committee, in salvation or else in punishment. Before police might come, sober members of the congregation hushed the malcontents. The deacons resigned...
Observers awaited eagerly the assembly of the new Dail. There was always the chance that Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail deputies would try to enter without taking the oath-a move often threatened never attempted, and sure to lead to many a cracked Irish crown. Sober-minded Irishmen hoped that Mr. Cosgrave would consent to carry on, as before, with the readily obtainable support of the "neutral" parties...
...toys with the firm's general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple, a fop, declaring as she proceeds that she "will catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm." In due time, however, all this diabolism is put aside in favor of wholesome matrimony with a sober leading man, thus proving yet again that cinema is sound at the core, even though occasionally amusing...
...Yale, he roomed with a sober-sided boy called Donald Ogden Stewart. Charles Walker's literary interests-the Lit, Archibald MacLeish's poetry, the Elizabethan Club-doubtless helped Funnyman Stewart's Parody Outline of History, Mr. & Mrs. Haddock, etc., to occur...
...cooperate with the police!" Chuckled delighted Conservatives: "Haw! By Jove . . . Burglars! Clynes calls his people burglars. . . ." Goaded, Mr. Clynes finally roared that the proceedings were "a Parliamentary farce," and strode from the House, followed by all Laborite M. P.'s. In their absence cloture was rushed through. Sober reflection caused Mr. Clynes to realize that he had overplayed drama into melodrama. Next day he and the Labor cohorts were back on the common-sense wooden benches of the House...