Word: sobersidedness
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Wood and Pettengill began placing calls, rounding up the anti-Administration members. Some sincere isolationists refused to attend. Among the Senators who came were balding, sobersided Robert Taft of Ohio, red-faced Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri. (Wheeler was out of town, speechmaking.)
This week Los Angeles Timesman William Mellors Henry, a journalistic institution in Southern California, took over a thrice-weekly Sunkist Orange program as substitute for gaudy, gossipy Hedda Hopper, now on vacation. Sobersided, hearth-loving Substitute Henry did not babble of cinema doings as had Miss Hopper. He prepared his...
So it went. Great things were afoot, great expectations in the air. To England this week the President sent Aid-Expediter William Averell Harriman, the sobersided multimillionaire who once bred the finest U. S. polo ponies (he was rated at eight goals). He also sent a group of scientists to...
Bill Martin became first paid president of the Stock Exchange after the Richard Whitney scandal, when Wall Street's Old Guard had given way to its Young Turks. New Dealish, optimistic, they rallied behind Newcomer Martin in a campaign to re-establish the Exchange's good name. Bachelor...
Forrest C. (for nothing) Donnell, a slender, blond, sobersided citizen with a dignified cowlick, and Lawrence McDaniel, a short, huge, chuckle-jowled citizen with a merry eye, have known each other for nearly 40 years. Both were born in Missouri's northwest corner, the rolling prairies of the Platte...