Word: soberness
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Meanwhile the noisy and fickle Chamber, which came within one vote of upsetting the Reynaud Government just before Germany invaded Scandinavia, followed the sober Senate's lead last week in toto, voted confidence in Premier Reynaud 515-to-0. This was a net gain to the Premier of 237 votes since his first and last time...
This year's Nieman group includes no such fun-loving character as last year's Edwin Lahey (Chicago Daily News), who spent a good part of his time reporting to the press on life at Harvard. The fellows are sensible, reasonably sober, and work harder at their studies than they ever did on their respective newspapers. Eight of the twelve are married, live in Cambridge with their wives and children. This year their waves have had a better time in Cambridge, partly because their husbands don't attend as many bachelor dinners as when Archie MacLeish...
...time, made into a valuable minor novel. Vaughan's boyhood in the Welsh mountains, his life at Oxford and in noisome London, his service as a trooper-surgeon for King Charles in the savage Civil Wars and his later life as a country physician are reconstructed in a sober, ringing prose that suggests the rich style of the 17th Century. Scholar Ashton's battles and amputations make a plausible background for Vaughan's fine devotional poetry...
...Hyderabad) is the Maharaja of Mysore. He rules over a prosperous plateau State twice as big as Switzerland, with rich revenues from silk, gold, sandalwood and agriculture-of which the Maharaja himself gets $13,000,000 annually. Its high altitude gives Mysore the healthiest climate in India. A sober, hard-working ruler, the childless Maharaja early designated his brother Sir Sri Kanthirava Narasimharaja Wadiyar Bahadur to be Yuvaraja-heir apparent. Last fortnight the Yuvaraja, one of the most glamorous, eccentric figures in the East, was dead before the Maharaja...
...himself) had to struggle, (like himself) won, but a boy whose main activity (unlike Mickey's) was investigating, inventing, thinking. Mickey Rooney not only had to make young Tom Edison plausible, he had to create the boyhood basis for a legendary manhood. He gave the role his most sober and restrained performance to date. That he did not succeed entirely was partly the fault of the production, partly because the picture featured Mickey in a role so different from his usual ones that puzzled cinemaddicts did not know what bewildered them most-seeing Mickey Rooney as Thomas Alva Edison...