Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medical and dental clinics in Boston settlement houses, service to Student Council, Senior Album committee, or class groups, form the concrete daily routine of the Brooks House. Dwight Hall represents the clash of the conservative ambition of timid national organizations with a changed student mind, too filled with the sober religion of undergraduate activity to be receptive to organized contemplative philosophy. Time and effort have been spent in former years at Harvard in the attempted organization of contemplative discussion groups. The increased effort necessary to produce the slightest response, and the obvious failure of such organization has born testimony...
...prayer: "I pray for sober and sensible responsibility, a spirit of gratitude for the things we have . . . and most of all, restraint in speech...
...generally received as part of the practical science of business." Parenthetically Mr. Ford interjected: "It has been said that in England we employ only teetotalers. That is not true, but we insist on sobriety. We can only pay good wages to sober workmen...
Retorted Mr. Ford: "We don't allow drinking in any of our foreign factories. That's the trouble with people from New York. They don't think anybody is sober...
Playwright MacOwan's somewhat misapplied earnestness is ably abetted by Actor Banks, whose moral austerity and quirks of personality convincingly reek of heather. Actress Menken's husky voice has always been effective when sober things were being spoken; she still achieves miracles of makeup which make her seem almost beautiful. One of the season's most extraordinary moments occurs when, as a barefoot invalid, she extends her foot toward the audience and spreads and wiggles her toes with astounding flexibility...