Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave rabbits enough alcohol to kill them, quickly brought them almost to normal with oxygen. Two delirium tremens cases he soothed at once by the same gas. Several tipplers whom he invited to his laboratory for a regulated carouse interrupted their toping with draughts at the oxygen tank, remained sober. If only he could make a "dead drunk" man or woman come out of a coma. . . . For nine months he sought a "dead drunk" in Utrecht-in vain. Now, in his report to the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde (Leipzig), he recommends that U. S. hospitals study his methods...
...guests of the students must have complained of the mildness of the entertainment provided, for a few years later came a repeal of the law against punch-drinking: "It shall be no offense if the scholars, in a sober manner, entertain one another and strangers with punch, which, as it is now usually made, is no intoxicating liquor." On what grounds did the authorities make this last calm statement...
...cash, yet sufficient ly orthodox to declare: "There is no advice you can give a man except this: 'Do your job better than that job has ever been done before.' " The absorption of a mere ten million gold marks of Diskonto Gesellschaft paper, last week, was in sober truth mere routine for Dillon, Read, who have placed $85,000,000 of securities for the Government of Brazil, $81,000,000 for the Canadian National Railways, $35,000,000 for the Republic of Poland, and $15,000,000 for the Great Consolidated Electric Power Co. of Japan...
...only taxes he lays upon his readers touch their credulity (he insists in the preface that all he tells has occurred in sober fact) and their squeamishness. Here is specimen Wren carnage: "It was no moment for kid-gloved warfare nor the niceties of chivalrous fighting, and I drove my sword through the back of one man who was in the very act of yelling, 'Hack the -in pieces and throw her to the dogs,' and I cut halfway through the neck of another ... as I wheeled about, I laid one black throat open to see the bone...
...Henry Dobbs, British High Commissioner to Irak. Actually Sir Henry, King Faisal of Irak, and Premier Abdul Mushsin Beg al Ga'dun, deferred consistently to her as the most brilliant and profound feminine apostle of Anglo-Mesopotamian concord who ever lived. The kingdom of Irak was in sober truth her realm...