Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American pioneers were often crusaders. But they were chiefly "solid, sober, cautious" citizens who firmly believed in hanging on to their scalps. Crafty pathfinders like Daniel Boone were not glamorous storybook characters; they were "heroes because they were . . . men who did not get lost...
...Dewey once again recalled the long history of New Deal internecine quarrels, pointing out that they went all the way back to the NRA. He asked: "What kind of a Government is this that even a war cannot make it sober down and go to work...
...Sober-minded Rumanians and neutral observers in Bucharest realize that the policy of the Red Army does not represent the policy of Moscow. But they have grave worries which go deeper than blind pessimism...
...Merry Monahans (Universal), a jigsaw of nostalgic cliche, sometimes mildly pleasing, never downright unpleasant, involves vaudevillians Jack Oakie, Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan in one more exhumation of variety's vanished glories. Chief problem in this one: keeping Paterfamilias Oakie, a sterling performer when sober, away from the bottle. Jack Oakie continues as amiably reliable as a merry-go-round. Miss Ryan is less rambunctious and more human than before. Donald O'Connor, besides being a solid vaudevillian, remains the most likable juvenile in pictures...
Facing the Winter. The truth was that with the arrival of the autumnal equinox no more prolonged periods of good fighting weather could be expected. In Italy there was less talk of "annihilating" the German Army, a sober realization that no magic carpet would take the Allies to the Po River. Now it was a battle of roads. The prospect of at least part of a second winter in Italy was gradually becoming a reality...