Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ridiculousness of the High Priest "tastefully gowned in red with pearls and brilliants" set off with an amazing false Card of first dynasty Egyptian origin, through the anachronisms of Herod in the manner of Quentin Matsys and the Second Wise-man in that of the lamented Hoffman, in the sober and mildly successful third wiseman, the Virgan and the Angel (who in passing it may be said was most unfairly made...
...Lampoon has no official connection with the university; it is published by students as a private enterprise. Just the same, it bears the Harvard name and reflects on Harvard; and the student body might be justified in insisting that it shine up its poetry or else turn to more sober activities. --The World...
...bags and hold degrees from at least three universities. Or maybe-this is mere conjecture, but we feel it may hit the mark-she is still smarting from being one of those American girls whom the Prince couldn't dance with because of an overcrowded dance program. On sober second thought, please do print every letter Miss Robinn writes; she is too entertaining to be buried in obscurity. . . . My husband complains against TIME. He says Dishes, Babies and Dinner all have to wait until I read it from front to back. EUNICE EDDY BRAATEN...
...seems possible that that other promising juvenile." William Janney, who takes the hurdles as Tommy, can be compared to his teammate, Peg. But in the last act he stages a Jack Dalton, and saves the cLeeild, with an excellent performance as Tommy-When-Drunk, and that though he is sober as Andrew Volstead...
...whose convictions are unpopular for the edification of minds who see in "modernism" ultimate salvation is, at best, a sorry game. And what little Dr. Mather can say to clarify this nebulous issue will possess the inadequacy of forced condensation. The whole affair, in the light of serious and sober thought, cannot appear other than ridiculous...