Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pressagent McCrary, for brass-tack talks with multimillionaire Republican John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and lifelong friend of McCrary, who had already expressed interest in helping the paper (with a rumored transfusion of $2,000,000). To keep a sober eye on editorial policy under Editor-Publisher Reid, the paper was recruiting an advisory board composed of business and G.O.P. leaders...
...found themselves directed to the specially set-up bar (beer and soft drinks) by a sign advising: "Getting wild? You'll be tamed at the Lion's Den." Except for this convention-style japery, the eighth annual meeting of Roman Catholic mission-sending societies was occupied with sober reports, many of them dealing with a single mission area: Africa...
...adore or detest television and the institution of advertising. Bearing virtually no kinship to George Axelrod's play of the same name, this Success, a happy direct descendant of custard-pie slapstick, is one of the silliest strings of sight-and-sound gags ever to jounce through the sober inhibitions of staid latter-day Hollywood. Producer-Director-Writer Frank Tashlin, a onetime Disney cartoonist and sketching fabulist (The Bear That Wasn't), plays the yarn strictly for laughs...
...bribery and conspiracy in soliciting $30,000 from two complaisant Brooklyn electroplating firms in return for "labor peace." After one all-night session, the jurors sent word they could not reach an agreement, but General Sessions Judge John A. Mullen sent them to a hotel for rest and sober second thoughts. The guilty verdict opens Dio to a maximum sentence of two years in prison and a fine...
...conclusions are calculatedly sober. Dr. Bowen's figures show that seeding by airplane achieved approximately 20% increase in the amount of rain that fell on the test region. For $225,000 a year, he estimates, he can drop extra rain worth $2,200,000 on a hydroelectric watershed...