Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still, the question will intrude itself: who will do the cheering and the singing? The sober citizen who pays entrance money may utter disconnected howls and yells during a thrilling end run, just as he would during a fast double play, but even the antics of the best cheerleader the club owners can find will scarcely remove his natural repugnance to bawling rhythmic nonsense. That kind of thing is all well enough for the Youngsters, but hard on the middle aged lungs and lanynx...
...sound of these loudly spoken words will echo in the ears of sober Boston for a long time after "The Show-Off" leaves town. And with the sound will go the memory of flashy clothes, a dapper moustache and a pose half like Napoelon and half like a peacock parade...
...Sober pinch-pennies derive great pleasure from betting-they are indeed the most daring fellows alive, for they hazard their careful stake on the expected and the expected rarely occurs. Your extravagant defrauds himself of excitement. He favors unlikelihoods, only to see them crop up at every turn. This paradox of the wise man and his penny is sustained by the fact that it frequently proves untrue. For instance, conservative students of tennis fully expected William T. Tilden to win the National Tennis Championship which was decided last week at Forest Hills. Perceiving a balance draw, with Tilden and Williams...
CARAVAN-John Galsworthy-Scribner. ($2.50). Novels, especially the long, sober kind Mr. Galsworthy writes, are stately vehicles riding by the public view. Here is a more informal procession of tales and sketches in which, for a very modest fare indeed, one may go forth on 56 different excursions, in many directions and at the many paces that a writer hits up between his crisp youth and reflective middle...
...customary that these evaluations be sober, businesslike...