Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Report of the Student Council of Education," which fills more than one-third of the issue. It would be most improper for a visitor to discuss this document; but he may, without vain compliment, be struck with the lucidity, orderliness, and independence of the style (which is also very sober in tone); and may admire, very honestly, the maturity of form attained in the committee of ten gentlemen wearing the suffix "26." Such a document, in any University, could surely only do good, and clear...
...given in the preface. He praises the last encounter of Don Juan and his gypsy, calls it "a stroke of genius." But he also says: "For Heaven's sake remember that there are plenty of geniuses about, and that the real difficulty is to find writers who are sober, honest and industrious and have been for many years in their last situation." Flecker's qualifications were sustained in 1923 when his poetic drama Hassan began a long run at His Majesty's Theatre, London, later appearing...
...finest talk I ever received in my life was given me by Mr. House, inciting ambition to be something in the world; inciting ambition to live a straight life and keep sober and to be industrious, and that was the lecture I received from Mr. House, and I have never forgotten it; and I owe to him a statement of this little angle of his life...
Although the serial story of "Bobbed Hair" which ran in the Saturday Evening Post was the composition of twenty-one authors, all white and sober, it is the most inebriate tale which we have ever happened to find. Although we were not chosen among the twenty-one, we are quite capable of producing an equal absurdity any time of the day or night...
...Sport of Kings" deals with a wager between two young men that they can persuade a staid and sober friend to ten on a horse race...