Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when I declare that TIME'S sense of humor is utterly unique in my experience. Your coupon was a prize example of it. I should never suggest that your readers are primarily attracted by your sense of humor, for of course your intent and achievements are primarily sober and serious. None the less, some line of witty perception should be discernible in a group of, how many is it now, 85,000? . . . My filled-in coupon misrepresents a situation to this extent: there is "in my family" a "female TIME reader aged 50 to 60"-my wife...
...Practically sober...
From their gay, Gothic home beyond the Hackensack meadows they come the young visitors. The square is filled with them. Orange and Black mingles with sober crimson in the store windows. Spectators speculate; trefoil frailties and the Yard gendarmes reminisce quite audibly. One might call it Indian summer--but the House of Hanover could not brook that...
...tried to drag Buermeyer into the bathtub to revive him. He chafed him, fanned him, groaned his name. Then he telephoned for an ambulance, gave himself up to the police, told the story, in detail too brutal to print. Sober at tail too brutal to print. Sober, he said: "I must have been crazed...
...convention made no decisions of far-reaching import. The members, most of them in their 30's, many of them sober, listening to the convention speeches at the Chateau Frontenac, heard...