Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soberer Sue. In Philadelphia, when her boy friend was charged with evading the draft, Susan Cole, once billed by carnivals as Sober Sue, the Mirthless Marvel ($100 if you can make her laugh), muttered: "The way I feel ... I could raise the ante...
...sober men knew the importance of the step. That morning they had read in Sao Tang Pao (the Army newspaper) a selection from Chiang's new book China's Destiny: "In the past China's destiny depended on foreign policy. Now it depends on our ability to secure inner political unification and concentration of national power. China stands at the watershed of her fate, a fate which will be decided during the present war and within two years...
Like George Marshall the report was soldierly, sober, soundly optimistic. Its main points...
...horrors last week. A U.S. Army band (the 418th Army Air Forces Band from the Technical School at Yale) had suddenly, and disconcertingly, got rhythm. When it swung down the line blaring such hallowed items as John Philip Sousa's Stars & Stripes Forever in jive tempo, sober listeners began to wonder what U.S. brass-band music was coming to. Obviously, there was an Afro-Saxon in the woodpile...
...combat equipment they carry." What made these predictions news this week was their author: not Major de Seversky, writing for the aviation press, but General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, in a special article for Army Ordnance, one of the most sober-sided of military publications...