Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other points made in language more sober and staid were...
...member. He also congratulated the deceased man upon having given an unemployed politician (Mr. Churchill) the opportunity to "get off the unemployment dole." He declined, however, to let Mr. Churchill take any credit for his work as Minister of Munitions during the War. "Mr. Churchill was Minister," said the sober Mr. Thomas, "but I supplied the munitions. Mr. Churchill is so accustomed to read in history that certain people are born to rule that he has found it very difficult to reconcile that with the fact that certain people ought to rule...
Bishop William F. McDowell (Methodist) : "The nations of the world cannot live together half drunk and half sober. If the rest of the world will not keep out of the United States, the rest of the world has got to be made sober by the United States...
...their own form of development," continues the Transcript editorial, "probably the students of ancient Egypt, and certainly those of Greece and Rome were troubled and occasionally thwarted by the same influences.... The fact simply remains that the school, in sober and eternal reality, exists to train for high competence only about one person in a hundred...
...Upshaw: "Come on and sign!" Mr. Hill : 'I said I would sign if you persuaded the whole Georgia delegation to sign. But I am glad the gentleman has decided finally that he needs to sign it." Mr. Upshaw : "I am not responsible for my colleagues. They are all sober gentlemen...