Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incidents in The Lost Patrol are fictitious. The sober tempo of Director John Ford's narrative gives them the character of fact. Nothing is dramatized except the presence of Death. The only suspense is that of counting very slowly toward a dozen. No more is necessary to make the picture as sharp and alarming as the crack of a rifle. Best shot: a last hooded Arab following his dead companions into the oasis...
...Professor Breasted chortled: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. And if anyone was exposed to it I was. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen and took my meals there. I never felt better in my life." With little respect for sober scientific fact, the New York World-Telegram printed fresh feature stories on "Pharaoh's curse...
...added to the deficit, although it increased the public debt. Thus the President might have ignored the $3,970,000,000 RFC outlay of 1934, might have announced a deficit not of $7,309,000,000 but of $3,339,000,000. Then he might have told Congress in sober truth: "Last summer we planned to run into debt for $3,300,000,000 of emergency expenditures. We expect to exceed this amount by only $39,000,000. For fiscal 1935 our budget, including all emergency expenditures now foreseen, is estimated to balance with a surplus...
Jesus, put your arms around New York. Hug her to death, Lord. . . . Is New York going to Heaven? Is she going to pray? To be sober? True? Virtuous...
...broader and deeper than his manner would indicate. "Tender is the Night" gives the uneasy impression of being a potboiler as Compton MacKenzie's Italian and detective stories give it; for just as Mr. MacKenzie cannot keep out of his froth, phrased as froth, some of his more sober merit, Mr. Fitzgerald gives us disturbing glimpses of a kind of writing different from any that he has ever done. Mr. MacKenzie does the other kind, often; perhaps Mr. Fitzgerald will do it some day, also...