Word: sobered
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...labor organization whose scheme is to start the strikes that it gets paid to settle, is telling the miners that the heads of their union are double-crossing them. All this means to Joe is a chance for the fight which suits his mood but when he wakes up sober the next morning, he finds himself nominal head of a new organization formed to break the old union. The war between the two labor factions results in a lockout and a strike. When the miners and their children start to starve, when their families are being ousted from Coaltown...
Taking courage, she began, with the sober relish of childhood, to empty her raised skirt of rich, crumbling cake. Then she paused, frowning uneasily. Should she have stolen...
...marked contrast to its supporters, who insist on speaking of trenches, mire, and flags, etc., the opposition to the bill headed by prominent educators has replied in sober language. They view the bill merely as an aspersion on their loyalty and seek, with pathetic eagerness, to discover reasons for the bill's existence lurking somewhere in the background...
...University was having its twenty-fourth birthday. Over the sunbaked quadrangles bustled the black-cloaked figures of the men and women who were about to graduate. Hardy sons and daughters of the soil, brought there by the new wealth, they walked and talked in the manner of sober doers. Some day they would be the teachers, doctors, and ministers of the new state...
...Garbo and Mae West, a picture in which her physical charms are concealed by a mackinaw and a woolen stocking-cap obviously constitutes a daring innovation. The merits of The Wedding Night are more substantial than criticisms which dwell on these superficial factors may lead cinemaddicts to suppose. A sober, admirably realistic investigation of the futility of the back-to-the-soil movement among Manhattan's literati, it is written with honesty and humor, acted with understanding, made exciting by King Vidor's intelligent direction. Good shot: Taka, Tony Barrett's absconding Japanese houseboy, tiptoeing across...