Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princess Ingrid wore no jewels. On her head was a small wreath of myrtle. She wore the lace and carefully preserved orange blossoms that her mother had worn at her own wedding 30 years ago. Her bouquet was a small bunch of lilies of the valley. Sober Crown Prince Frederick wore the blue-black uniform of a Danish naval officer with a blue sash. To the chancel rail came lantern-jawed Archbishop Erling Eidem, and after him the Princess repeated...
...which is sometimes spoken of as murder, is more often thought of as manslaughter in self-defense than as murder in the first degree. But in peacetime, when thoughts of the last war can be retroactively sober, it is possible to analyze the impersonal hecatombs of battle into individual instances of coldblooded killing. Since the World War, writers who are also veterans have been resurrecting many an unknown soldier. Their grisly finds make a pile of evidence more terribly impressive (though more ephemeral) than any neat, white, euphemistic cenotaph to the glorious dead. Austria's Andreas Latzko...
...sober-sided City men of the British Bankers Association were treated one night last week to an outburst of joy from the most formidable Tory of them all-the chill Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain. The man who has given Britain budget surpluses for two years past rose in his place, took off his eyeglasses, looked paternally about him and all but chortled, "We meet in an atmosphere of such happiness and contentment as has not been seen since the War." He proceeded to document the atmosphere with an impressive set of figures...
...much larger debt. He persuaded the paper's creditors that he could make the paper pay its way, and he did. He got similar results with his farms and orchards. The job of doing so made him what he is: pink-faced, sober and. more significant politically, a believer in economy and budget balancing...
...confused with sober, middle-aged Sculptor Robert Aitken or able, young TIME-FORTUNE Photographer Russell Aikins is Ceramist Russell Barnett Aitken. Son of David Aitken, electric ty coon, he inherited his interest in animals from his father, who started life as a fur trader at Rat Portage in the Rainy River country, Ontario. At the age of nine he was modeling clay robins, baking them by an open fire. He loved to skin weasels so that he might study their muscular structure. To study ceramics Russell Aitken went to the Cleveland Art School rather than an Eastern university...