Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai, Chefoo, Dairen, Newchwang, Tientsin, Swatow, Chungking, Foochow he had already made himself one of the Far East's best-known diplomats. It had been 13 years since he left his native Bridgeport, Conn, as a Cornell engineering graduate. In that time he had learned to stay sober while gulping vast quantities of vodka, stay suave while sipping small quantities of tea, tell jokes in Russian and 15 Chinese dialects, outplay Chinese generals at poker and politics, pen dispatches which his State Department superiors found masterpieces of industry and insight...
...sober, and unfortunately someone sometime must be, "The Drunkard", as here produced, can be an annoying bore. In recreating the music hall atmosphere, the Copley seems to have scoured the streets for all those people whose stock-in-trade is "You said it, sport", and placed them in the balcony. The audience thus takes the cast by storm, its superb banalities so drowning speech on the stage as to make the play seem a pantomine. Too bad, for I recall in a previous performance that the lines of the play were pearls of wit, and trite not at all. This...
This sounded as if most of Mexico's Catholic population were in danger of being excommunicated but in fact no Mexican was last week excommunicated and avoided. To any such high threat of absolute wrath, the Church adds a sober, realistic rider. Last week Archbishop Diaz pardoned in advance Government employes who keep their jobs because they cannot find other work, parents who send their children to proscribed schools because the truant officer forces them to. The Church wants loyal Catholics but even more it wants live Catholics...
...Away Home (by Dorothy Bennett & Irving White; Theron Bamberger, producer). There are eight adolescents in Fly Away Home and a trio of adults who also act pretty childishly. Of these oldsters the most amusing is Thomas Mitchell, cast as a sober-sided father whose divorced wife found him too serious. He has not seen his children for years until he returns to the family's summer home to witness his wife's remarriage to a visionary professor...
...these pamphlets is a deliberate attempt on the part of someone to create an atmosphere of prejudice against the defendant. . . ." For a while it looked as if the whole panel would have to be discharged as prejudiced. It would take 40 days to draw another. In the chambers of sober old Justice Trenchard, before whom the case was to be tried, prosecution and defense finally agreed that no damage had been done either side...