Word: soberly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers of America crowded into Washington's Constitution Hall one night last week and sat with eyes glued on the stage. From the side appeared an engrossed little group of men, convoying a towering figure. The audience rose, whistling and roaring. Candidate Roosevelt, sober-faced, in the glare of four white spotlights, still under convoy, crossed the stage...
...rival to the Youth Congress, I. S. S. nevertheless proposed to speak more authoritatively for U. S. Youth, wean Youth from passing angry resolutions to sober discussion. Last week Author Christopher Morley's blonde daughter Louise (Bryn Mawr) started the ball rolling by introducing Mrs. Roosevelt at the I. S. S. conference. Up dashed an ink-black African and a swarthy Brazilian, presented Mrs. Roosevelt with a striped bedspread, a Brazilian student banner...
That cooperation was the most heartening news Britain had had since the Battle of Oran (see p. 22). "What has been done with almost boyish spontaneity this week is . . . one of the most far-reaching commitments in world history," wrote the sober New Statesman and Nation after the deal was announced. "It wants no abnormal quickness of wit to see the implications in this week's arrangement, and we must assume that both the Foreign Office and the State Department have seen them. For our part, we are content that it should be so. We are then brothers...
Married. David Rockefeller, 25, sober, hulking, moon-faced youngest son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; and Margaret McGrath, 24, comely socialite; in Bedford...
...purely conversational farmer. I never have done a stroke of work on a Rush County farm in my life and I hope I never have to. Louis Berkemier and Joe Kramer and the other fellows do the work. I merely do the talking"). They could nod, in sober understanding, when he said that he had spent 37 of his 48 years in their Midwest, and that now: "Bombs are raining down on England. . . . People who live and think as we have lived and thought are being destroyed. . . . There comes to me an overwhelming sense of humility when I think that...