Word: sobersidedness
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-Sobersided Congressmen reported the temper of the people: Congress should retain every bit of its hard-won independence, but should use its new power to work with the President for the common good.
A New York Times book reviewer, sobersided John Chamberlain, used a full column one morning to review the catalogues-in rollicking verse. In Boston's ultra-respectable College Club, women flocked to a series of morning lectures on vegetable gardening. In Minneapolis, with temperatures ranging to 31 below zero...
The reputation held long after he had become one of the Air Corps' best pilots. But in 1940 a change began to come over rollicking Blondie. Assigned to Hickam Field, Hawaii, he was made Commander of a Flying Fortress outfit. And Blondie became serious, sobersided, calculating. On Dec. 7...
The Comte de Paris, despite a somewhat squirrelish appearance, is personally a likable pretender. He is no sly neurotic, but a sobersided young man who studied politics at the Universities of Louvain and Brussels and likes to fly airplanes. His attractive young consort, the former Princess Isabelle d'Orl...
Sobersided, self-centered, Henry Morgan has many ambitions: to go to England with Norman Corwin, to announce sports, to be a U.S. Senator. But he agrees with his maid, whom he quotes as saying, "It's silly, that stuff you do, but you know-you're the only...