Word: soberly
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...limitations of the stuff of humor are not merely those of subject matter. One may learn to countenance the abnormal interest shown by columnists, particularly of tabloid newspapers, in the crime of passion. Such writers are rarely credited with sober or mature thought on the evidence at hand. The penalty of an otherwise happy profession is that all ears are turned to the wisecrackery of the fool and none to the expressions of his opinion. There is thus a peculiarly personal application of the law of conservation of energy in the life of the humorist...
Seymour Lowman, U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition, took the opportunity to make another remark of the sort which has not endeared him to his sober superiors. Said Mr. Lowman, sarcastically: "One of the greatest accomplishments of my term in this office is the reformation of Jimmy Walker. Another soul has been redeemed...
...were not for the joy and gladness which it must bring to all the good people of Boston and Cambridge. Tradesmen of the Square breathe a sigh of relief and replace the Kollege Kut Klothes in their window with unmatched suits and complements of a more sober hue. The period of depression is over. The college boys are back, and better to have long-running bills than no business...
...seen whether the despotic machine of Stalin can. Kicked out, they yet believe that alone are the chosen vessels in which reposes the spirit of Lenin - in Russia Lenin is, in sober truth, a God. In his name Trotsky will certainly plot and and perhaps conquer. After all "Lenin & Trotsky" is a couplet revered by millions to whom "Lenin & Stalin" rings unfamiliar, hollow strange...
Virtually no notice has been taken by sober publications of the huge Hearst headlines regarding anti-U. S. activity in Mexico. The New York World expressed itself in a derisive cartoon; demanded editorially to know why, if Hearst held authentic documents regarding Mexican bribery of the U. S. press, all names and other possibilities of verification were blacked out when facsimilies appeared in Hearst papers. Mr. Hearst thus dodged his only chance to prove the truth of his "news", and by so doing to force reputable publications to print it or such facts about it as their investigators could assemble...