Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken an oath of allegiance to support. . . . The ex-soldier who will [disobey the law], and practically all of them did in Detroit, is a perjured scoundrel who ought not to represent the decency of the flag under which he fought. . . . There was a marked absence of the sober, well-behaved typical American. The other crowd is in power. That is why such numbers of staggering drunks disgraced the uniform and yelled for beer."* Dr. Wilson later said he had been misunderstood. All he meant was that some of the Legionaries had "dropped their Americanism, their Christian standards of decency...
...When these men were being trained for overseas it was as sober soldiers in Dry cantonments. America tried to make total abstainers of every one. They went across to France the cleanest army that ever assembled on any field. A million maintained their American ideals, even in French cities. But some dropped down to another level. This is the crowd that seeks to dominate the Legion and our civilization." The Chicago chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union prayed for "our poor, deluded boys in Detroit. We must pray for them so that God. who works mysterious wonders...
...docile Cabinet of Alexander, the Dictator King who looks like a dentist, and his big-jowled Premier General Pera Zivkovitch assembled hurriedly at the summer palace last week. King Alexander, sober behind his glittering pince-nez, told them that his three-year Dictatorship was at an end (TIME, Jan. 14, 1929 et seq.). Before the Ministers had recovered from their astonishment. Minister of the Court Jevtitch stood up and read them Jugoslavia's new Constitution. This document was evolved by no convention. It is the handiwork of shrewd King Alexander himself. Points...
...unbecoming as it sounds. Good shots: Joan Crawford and Neil Hamilton (the fiance) dislodging a china vase and waiting for it to crash while it falls on a sofa. Trite shot: a scene of revelry which reaches its peak when Monroe Owsley tries to prove he is sober by walking in a straight line...
Divorced. Lady June Inverclyde, London music hall artist, from John Alan Burns, Lord Inverclyde (Cunard Steamship Co.); in Reno. Lady Inverclyde testified her husband insulted her friends, "was never entirely sober," said she would marry Lothar Mendes, cinema director. Lord Inverclyde remained in Scotland, shooting grouse...