Word: soberly
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...City, had finished painting. He stepped back, squinted, scowled. The canvas before him, good though it was, did not warm his esthetic zones. Several days later he was painting again on the same canvas, but on the other side. Pleased, he hummed to himself-now he was getting that sober contentment which his art demanded. Sonn of the neighbors called him Queer Manievich; wiser friends spoke of him as Shrewd Manievich. Last week some of his two-sided paintings were exhibited at the Durand-Ruel galleries in Manhattan. Buyers, undecided which side of a canvas they liked best, could embellish...
...sober truth that word and a few others fired the huge unarmed mob which forced the British to evacuate their $60,000,000 concession at Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17). Last week the world waited to see if the Chinese, a medley of tribes, had learned the white man's lessons well enough to stand together and force him from his $1,000,000,000 concessions at Shanghai...
...that seemed to droop their eyes in mischievous lure, in vague invitation to Student Mowrey. He pictured the old church standing silent in moonlight, and the gargoyles coming down from their towers for a rowdy riot of dance and clatter. This was material for a symphony, Student Mowrey, cold, sober, realized...
...aristocracy. The continental poetry of Wyoming, in the second place, emerges with clarity and sublimity; from the grave, racy, accurate talk of cowmen about their animals, to the ineffable silence of mountain ranges. The serious thesis, finally, that men are better outdoors than in; that the Antaeus myth is sober truth; that cities bury their builders' souls, is argued with a militance amply justified by the writer's competence. Few of his countrymen are as civilized as Author Burt...
...ridiculousness of the High Priest "tastefully gowned in red with pearls and brilliants" set off with an amazing false Card of first dynasty Egyptian origin, through the anachronisms of Herod in the manner of Quentin Matsys and the Second Wise-man in that of the lamented Hoffman, in the sober and mildly successful third wiseman, the Virgan and the Angel (who in passing it may be said was most unfairly made...