Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington counseled his country against entangling alliances. More tolerance to new policies that seem to clash with old American customs may develop when we realize that many accepted reforms like free education, the limitation of hours of labor, and the extension of credit to farmers, were once branded by sober citizens as radical and subversive...
...flattered when Will Durant included her, along with celebrities ranging from Benito Mussolini to Mary Garden, in a sober symposium on Life. (She wrote: "For me, life is interesting, entertaining, happy, if only I can have some activity for the restlessness that is in my heart...
Conventions are an ordinary U. S. phenomenon, to be rated according to 1) size, 2) noise, 3) absurdity. The Legion's Convention was in not too sober fact an all-time top in all respects. Total attendance, including families of Legionnaires, was 110,000. In six days, the 110,000 reputedly spent $1,300,000 on lodgings, $1,100,000 on food, $1,100,000 on entertainment (chief item, liquor), $1,200,000 in stores, $675,000 on incidentals. Reports that during the uproar in the Astor bar, light-hearted Legionnaires had killed the bartender by bashing...
...personal ruler but by the impersonal necessities of economic markets in which governments take part only by regulating against abuses, Walter Lippmann looks for social progress, "the enlargement of the middle class as against the poor and the rich." To him this is not a pious hope but a sober expectation, for he concludes that the economic law which Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini try to attack and impair will compel men to rediscover and to re-establish the essential principles of a liberal society . . . the renascence of liberalism may be regarded as assured...
LOST HERITAGE-Bruno Frank-Viking ($2.50). Factually sober, fictionally lively novel, laid in Hitler Germany, about a cultured, honest-minded young nobleman who becomes involved in a monarchist coup d'état, returns after his escape to save an accomplice, settles finally in London (mostly in the British Museum...