Word: sobersidedness
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Last week the sobersided Department of Commerce explained: "For some time . . . evidence had been accumulating . . . that abnormally large shipments of water closets were moving into export channels." Commerce had discovered that exporters seemed to be shipping more cast-iron water closets (which require no export license) than manufacturers were making...
Halfway through the meeting, a round-faced young man got up to read a resolution on industrial relations. The delegates liked his looks and liked what he said in his wordy, sobersided way. They elected Dark Horse Mackenzie King on the third ballot. That kind of thing might happen again...
The president lives with his wife, his mother and a fidgety Irish setter, in a twelve-room stone mansion overlooking the Berkeley campus. They do a lot of entertaining (a September house guest: Harvard's President James Bryant Conant), have occasionally fed a whole varsity team. All three of...
The sobersided, dark-clad delegates met morning, afternoon and evening to hear and discuss the news and views of world Methodism.
The minority aboard it, as always, were the sobersided, skilled skiers, usually in well-worn clothes. They did their best to ignore the "snow bunnies"-the partying, dressed-to-kill wing of the amateurs. Snow bunnies had a habit of weaving off the snow, and often went tumbling downhill like...