Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their own importance, as well as those who make their living by stirring up discontent, can be relied upon to exaggerate the conditions in a time like the present. This is the reason why no public commission on employment, made up of politicians and agitators, will ever publish the sober and verifiable findings of its own statistical experts...
...answer that the advocates of President Harding's plan for voluntary service would make to these optimists is that no human being can foretell emergencies. More than one sober man feels that this country has a troublesome path ahead for some time to come; and agrees with the President that this nation should be strong enough to fear no one. Such opinions come not always from jingos and alarmists, but from men who know much more than the rising generation about the future. Moreover the permanent military policy of the country calls for a standing army of only...
...much sympathy will attend the fleeing Deputy. The common opinion is that duplicity has only got its due, and sober Italians will be more than glad to be rid of so dangerous a plotter against law and order. Indeed, the fate, of the would-be Italian Lenine is possibly an indication that Bolshevism is on the wane in Italy: Given a full dinner-pall and the mishaps of the "Russian Deputy" to chuckle over, the Italian workman will perhaps prove safe for democracy. As for Misiano, he will doubtless soon be on his way once more to his Russian fatherland...
...like those joyful sons of other institutions of learning who herald their democracy and mutual esteem by holing like wolves. Let us be content that the shades of the Puritan will always flit silently among us to dampen slightly our fervency and moderate our joy of living. Those sober men of the old time were not devoid of passion and numbered among them many of the "good and the great", of whom we are still able--on occasion--lustily to sing. But with all our pride of tradition, we might still attempt to cultivate a slightly more conciliatory manner...
...like those joyful sons of other institutions of learning who herald their democracy and mutual esteem by holing like wolves. Let us be content that the shades of the Puritan will always flit silently among us to dampen slightly our fervency and moderate our joy of living. Those sober men of the old time were not devoid of passion and numbered among them many of the "good and the great", of whom we are still able--on occasion--lustily to sing. But with all our pride of tradition, we might still attempt to cultivate a slightly more conciliatory manner...