Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guests are dining on cold roast beef, boiled potatoes and stale bread, more motorists arrive, a Welsh millionaire (Charles Laughton) and his tricky mistress (Lillian Bond). The type of hospitality to be expected in an establishment of this sort reaches its peak when the butler, who is queer when sober and mad while drunk, gulps down a bottle of gin and opens the door of a room which contains a criminal lunatic who tries to cut off Melvyn Douglas's head with a carving knife. Good shot: the criminal lunatic (Brember Wells) boasting that he knows more arson than...
...found with such an attitude. But as peculiarly a Harvard tradition, as a valuable incentive to scholarship, and as interesting to the booklovers, the Detur is worthy of greater fame. The suggestion that each House should display in its library the Deturs of its members is a sober recognition of those claims...
...week of Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee as Mayor of New York did more to damage the reputation of James John ("Jimmy") Walker, his predecessor, than a year's investigating by Samuel Seabury. Mayor McKee, young, handsome, sober, tackled his new job with a vigor and thoroughness that made many a New Yorker who had forgotten what good government was like gasp with happy astonishment. A new broom, he swept clean and by last week had accumulated a sizeable pile of Tammany trash...
...Windus looked high, low and carefully for a worthy successor, finally hit upon Author Stephen Hudson (A True Story). Hudson's version did not satisfy U. S. Publishers Boni, who chose Frederick A. Blossom, Ph. D., ex-professor at Johns Hopkins, to make the U. S. translation ?careful, sober, with occasional Ph. D. irruptions into footnotes...
Without division the sober Senators of the Irish Free State passed a resolution last week asking thin-necked President Eamon de Valera. of whom they do not approve, to negotiate with Great Britain to settle Ireland's most urgent problem immediately: Whether the Free State is to cease remitting annuities to the British Government for estates of British and Irish landlords divided and sold on the installment plan to Irish tenants. The Senators might as well have saved their breath. President de Valera pushed a ?2,000,000 emergency appropriation through the Dail for the establishment of new industries...