Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ernest W. Marland, Oklahoma oilman, gave a housewarming to open his $2,000,000 mansion at Ponca City. The 100 guests were dined, entertained by famed vaudevillians, presented with silver loving, cups. But the party was early and sober, for all 100 guests were small children, young proteges of Magnate Marland...
Faith in alcohol is based on ignorance of snakes. Many snakes that bite are not poisonous, the majority of poisonous bites are not fatal. The victim drowns his despair in drink. When, on growing sober, he finds himself still alive the alcohol gets the credit...
...Book is dedicated to Professor R. B. Merriman '96. Despite one or two minor flaws, the general appearance of the volume is more pleasing than usual to those who desire a sober and dignified record of a year which is not especially either of these. The editors have done well
...Soon sober and efficient Prague police, who do not think that Dr. Benes should tipple, tope, booze, guzzle, swig or swizzle, laid heavy hands upon Michael Maresch and clapped him into a cell...
...cult called "Buchmanism," received last week one of the rebuffs upon which they thrive. The Oxford Isis published a scornful editorial which spoke of "restraint flung aside . . . souls laid bare . . . hysterical confessions . . . fervor which no longer pretends to be religious . . . perverted religious mania . . ." and concluded with these stern and sober words...